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Undeniably topical, "Hoop Dreams" is not just a movie about basketball. It captivates its audience at every smooth pass and at every slam-dunk, but it is more far-reaching than the hype of a Nike commercial and vastly more politically-infused than a Duke game. See it, and see what's going...
...Hill. Their book doesn't quite nail that conclusion. Yet its portrait of Thomas as an id suffering in the role of a Republican superego is more detailed and convincing than anything that has appeared so far. Which is not to say that the book justifies the waves of hype it rides in on, including a nomination for the National Book Award. For one thing, the crucial stories told by Angela Wright and Rose Jourdain -- two of four women who came to Washington prepared to testify in support of Hill but who were kept waiting by the committee and then...
Madonna's career has never really been about music; it's been about titillation, about image, about publicity. But amid all the hype over what Madonna wears and what her sexual orientation seems to be this month, one thing sometimes gets obscured: in the course of her career, she's actually produced several remarkably skillful and entertaining albums. She's never been an innovator, but she's always adeptly seized on the latest dance and music trends; and while any number of pop musicians have made a new style palatable to the masses by watering it down, Madonna has displayed...
...question, there's a huge disparity there, and it's perhaps the biggest personal challenge I have--I've gotta want to come to play every night," he says. "Let's be blunt: over the past two years, in the games that haven't gotten the hype or the publicity, I have a history of not coming to play...
Like an out-of-shape fighter, O'Rourke chooses to pummel stiffs and has- beens. He wastes pages going after 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Planet, a quickly forgotten by-product of 1992 Earth Day hype. When he does take on a substantial foe, like Vice President Al Gore, he becomes almost hysterical, lumping Gore with Nazis and other totalitarians for observing that the world may be forced to respond to the global environmental crisis in a "collective, coordinated...