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...expects the movie to conclude. After all, you are supposed to reap what you sow. It is here that Boogie Nights delivers its most surprising, and most deeply, American turn. Anderson's menagerie of sleazy characters find redemption in family. Albeit, the family is "non-traditional," but Jack Horner, director of exotic cinema, presides over his brood of porn stars and crew with the patriarchal dedication of Ward Cleaver. By the close of the movie, all the chicks have come back to the nest. In the closing sequence, we watch Jack survey his abode, pausing to assure his wife, Amber...
Burt Reynolds plays the patriarch, Jack Horner, an idealist porn director convinced that his films are art. With his wife Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Jack serves as a surrogate parent to his actors: Eddie, whom he finds working as a runner in a disco; Rollergirl (Heather Graham), named for the rollerskates that never leave her feet, even when the rest of her clothing do; and Reed Rothschild (John C. Reilly), Eddie's boyish sidekick. This family, which includes a few other "stars" and crew members like Little Bill (William H. Macy) and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle), proves surprisingly endearing...
...Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds, relaxed and in charge) is a director with a dream: he wants to make a film that keeps customers in the theater even after they've been sexually satisfied. His lover and star, Amber Waves (a nicely wasted Julianne Moore), is almost as devoted to the son she never sees as she is to her cocaine stash. Rollergirl (Heather Graham, before whose beauty all gentlemen genuflect) performs sex on skates. And Eddie (Mark Wahlberg, a nice surprise) is just a dim, polite kid, not strong enough for the burden of stardom...
Roger Rosenblatt's "Speech for a High School Graduate" [ESSAY, June 9] is worth the price of a year's subscription! HOWARD F. HORNER Portland...
...Radcliffe Board of Trustees confirms that Matina S. Horner has been appointed the next president of Radcliffe. The announcement follows a year-long search for a replacement for Mary I. Bunting...