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There are countless breeds of TFs, and many (including mine, of course) manage to rise above their larval roots to become great instructors and, hopefully someday, great professors. But others, through either intense training or abnormal mutation, distort into a subspecies taxonomically known as Bad TF-hood--that is, one to look out for after handing in that paper. Because Bad TF-hood is a highly developed and cultivated state requiring great tenacity to achieve, we at the Institute have developed the following manual, originally published in the New England Journal of Semiotic Hermeneutics of Lower Academic Ecosystems, designed...
...devastatingly realistic. The talented Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility) has directed this story of uneasy family relationships in the restless, promiscuous culture of the early 1970s with crystalline precision, leaving the audience to stare at the ugly and universal truths underneath. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a decidedly unromantic affair with his next-door neighbor Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while his wife Elena (Joan Allen) is showing signs of being unable to put up with the charade of their 17-year marriage any longer. Their children, meanwhile, are beginning to discover...
...very beginning of The Ice Storm, Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire), a 16-year-old who attends boarding school in New York and reads Dostoevsky and the Fantastic Four, announces that families are like voids from which you can leave but must always return. At that moment, he's on his way back into the void, heading to his Connecticut home to spend Thanksgiving, 1973, with his family...
...Winfrey and directed by Jonathan Demme). And finally, it's a welcome little victory for cinematic wholesomeness. "Some of the black films today are not deep," says filmmaker George Tillman Jr., 28, who wrote and directed Soul Food, basing it on his own family experiences. "There are sex comedies, 'hood films. We're trying to get away from that. I wanted to do something that people could appreciate and remember about family...
Mystic Lake was the site of the 15th Hood Trophy regatta-a two-day, 20-team event that drew skippers from as far away as Cambridge... England (they came in 18th...