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...Iceland, the only place that appreciates his genius enough to take pity on his madness. So, Mama, should you let your baby grow up to be a chess champion? Tough question. In his novel The Defense, Nabokov, who loved the game as much as I do, has the hero, the chess master Luzhin, go mad when he is struck by the realization of the "full horror and abysmal depths of chess...
...want to forget just how wrong our country was to be in Vietnam and how much courage it took for Fonda to protest the war as she did. The traitors were the people who kept sending U.S. troops there to get killed. Fonda was and always will be a hero. We need people like...
...chase sequence pilfered from Friedkin's nifty The French Connection. In his God's-eye-view shots and acrobatic love scenes, he also pays tribute to the styles of Martin Scorsese and MTV. So the villain, Counterfeiter Willem Dafoe, is no more rotten or less picturesque than the hero, William Petersen. So everybody stinks. It matters not when, like Friedkin, you have fashioned a fetid movie hybrid: Miami Vile...
...folk strains of Outcast Singer Vladimir Vysotsky, Baryshnikov creates a tingling explosion of anger, isolation, homesickness and ferocity. Any viewer not wiped out by this dance is hereby excused from the human race. For all its superpower simplifications, White Nights has discovered in Baryshnikov a keen and passionate movie hero. Giggle at the film's naiveté; then feast on Misha and dance down the steppes. --By Richard Corliss
Sophomore Susie Winkeller—only a recent addition to the starting lineup—was the offensive hero in the nightcap, going 2-for-4 with four RBI and propelling the Crimson to an easy 7-4 win at Warren Field in Philadelphia...