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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easy to see why music video veteran Tarsem Singh was attracted to directing The Cell, this summer's harshest piece of visual eyecandy, because so much of the movie is like a music video itself. The fil invites us to join Jennifer Lopez's sexy scientist as she journeys into the nightmarish psyche of Vincent D'Onofrio's twisted serial killer, but the invitation is just as much Tarsem's, as he bids us to enter a world in which the confines of narrative structure simply melt away. The problem with this visually arresting picture however, is that its disturbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Warp Up: A Review of Summer 2000 | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...Resources Institute confirm their "commitment to making the viability of the world's ecosystems a critical development priority for the 21st century." These are sweeping words, but the jury on this commitment will be composed of the world's ecosystems. The planet itself will let us know, in the harshest possible manner, if our words are not being backed by action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condition Critical | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Just when it seems it couldn't get any worse for Marty McSorley, it does. After delivering a two-handed slash to Donald Brashear of the Vancouver Canucks on Feb. 21, the Boston Bruins enforcer, goon, strong-man--call him what you will--was slapped with the harshest penalty ever given by the National Hockey League (NHL), and was suspended for the rest of the season. Since then, he has been demonized, vilified and chastised by the horrified public and has become for some the embodiment of everything wrong with hockey. Even his fellow players have lashed out against...

Author: By Robin S. Lee, | Title: Hockey Has Its Own Penalties | 3/14/2000 | See Source »

...murder without the benefit of a Child Access Prevention law, he took the old-fashioned route. Thursday, Busch brought charges of involuntary manslaughter against 19-year-old Jamelle James, who lived in the same house as the young killer. Although Michigan recently adopted some of the nation's harshest juvenile penalties, a six-year-old is universally considered too young to understand the consequences of his behavior. Busch alleges that by making the gun available to the boy, James was "grossly negligent" and contributed to the delinquency of a minor - a misdemeanor that led, Busch claims, to the shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whom Can We Blame for the Michigan Shooting? | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...experience in prison is where Alice deals with her harshest critics, women from the lowest levels of society who never had reason to trust her in the first place. In befriending these women and earning their respect, Alice gains a heightened level of independence and personal strength...

Author: By Adam J. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crisis and cartharsis in A Map Of The World | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

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