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...Gladys P. Gifford, a member of Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhood's Scheme Z taskforce, describing attempts to offset Scheme z--the 11-story highway interchange slated for construction in east Cambridge--with promises of mass transit funds and extra parks...
...Barry Gifford, on whose novel the film was based, blames the critics for the film's lukewarm reception. "The faux intelligentsia can jump on or off a bandwagon," he notes. "Andre Gide said that writers should expect to lose 50% of their audience with each new work, that the rest never understood it in the first place. Perhaps that has happened to David...
...Tracy Hackeling 14 2 4 8 Tory Fair 14 2 2 6 Ann Kletz 14 1 1 3 Andrea Montalbano 14 1 0 2 Kai Morioka 10 1 0 2 Erin Matias 13 1 0 2 Sharon Olken 13 1 0 2 Jenny Wink 10 1 0 2 Jen Gifford 4 0 1 1 Chris Biggs 14 0 1 1 Tara Weinstock 14 0 1 1 Sue Caris 10 0 1 1 Kristy Gaschler 5 0 1 1 Laurie Hauber 14 0 0 0 Amy Weinstein 14 0 0 0 Heather Jackson 7 0 0 0 Laurie Uustal...
...fresco of two crazy kids on the run. Sailor and his girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) hightail it to New Orleans and Texas, where they encounter fat-lady porn stars and a slick psychopath (Willem Dafoe) who loses his head, literally and spectacularly, in a bank heist. To Barry Gifford's source novel Lynch adds a murder plot, an Elvis impersonation, a few torture scenes, a drug cartel, some cockroaches and a happy ending complete with deus ex machina. Not to mention frequent references to The Wizard of Oz, with which Wild has precisely nothing in common...
...Howard P. Ramseur, co-chair of the grass-roots Working Committee for a Cambridge Rainbow, says it is too early for an accurate analysis. But like Gifford, he says he sees positive signs...