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WATCHING STANLEY JAFFE'S Without A Trace is like watching a professor scrape a piece of chalk on the blackboard: you want to see what he's going to say, but the method gives you an uncontrollable urge to turn away and leave. In Without a Trace, Jaffe's style...
"The picture was the star," said novice director Jaffe in an interview earlier this week. Because he wanted to create a unified piece about a family's changing reactions to their six-year-old son's inexplicable disappearance. Jaffe maintained, the acting, the setting and plot were important only as...
Unfortunately, in his attempt to create this balance. Jaffe got entangled in detail. As a result, the movie drags and much of the impact of its frightening theme--the vulnerability of parents to the whims of crazies--is lost. This theme is carried through in its focus on Susan Selky...
Old men like Sheik might have vanished into total obscurity if Preservation Hall had not opened its gates to the public in 1961. It began as a series of informal jam sessions in a French Quarter art gallery. The pickup sessions soon gave way to regular nightly concerts, and, under...
This production's success is due in no small part to the tremendous enthusiasm of the cast. Rich Dikeman's Leading Player is sly, smooth, and agile. As Pippin, Justin Richardson evokes to perfection just the sort of boyish innocence and enthusiasm that the roe demands. And it's hard...