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Not content with the light-hearted story of a young television comedy writer and the aging movie hero he idolizes, the perpetrators of the musical version of My Favorite Year threw in an idiotic subplot straight out of Iron John. Benjy Stone (the write) now worships Alan Swann (the movie...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: My Favorite Plays Well, Despite Flaws | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

Light-hearted text painted at the top of the gallery walls tells whether there's any truth to legends about Gardner: "True: the attracted so much attention that the seats in the Boston Music hall without a view of her were sold at a reduced price," or "Maybe: she climbed...

Author: By Tara B. Reddy, | Title: Gardner Guards Flame | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

So it goes -- on through fortune-hunting playboys and good-hearted whores, down to the last oppressed peon. Everything they do and say has been done and said before. But they simply refuse to admit it. The result is not epic cinema as David Lean defined it but as Bette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hacienda Melodrama | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Speaking strictly in terms of a comedy, the lack of a coherent mood becomes the greatest stumbling block to success. A light-hearted comic musical, by time-honored tradition, is understood to end happily no matter what happens in the first four acts. No one dies, only the villains end...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Night Music Waltzes Between Melancholy and Joy | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

And Harvey Keitel sizzles as the judicous Mr. White. His words of wisdom for the rookie criminal Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) on dealing with a store manager during a robbery are; "If you wanna know something that he won't tell you, cut off one of his fingers. The little...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: 'Reservoir Dogs' Has Lots of Bite | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

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