Word: jamis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing to do," she told the critic loudly. "I loved this...
Giroux should be a defensive force, but he will need help from senior Sani Silvennoinen (back from injury) and freshmen Jami Chyz and Kevin Fitzpatrick...
...number of critics are annoyed at colleagues who supply blurbs in advance. "It fuzzes the line between the critic and the publicist," says New York Post reviewer Jami Bernard. "Crafting a sentence that would read well on an ad is not the kind of sentence that would look good in a review. It just brings shame on us all." WCBS-TV's Dennis Cunningham, one of the more restrained broadcast critics, blames the movie companies for "letting it be known that they want wretched excesses or nothing. There used to be people at the studios who wrote ad copy...
...authors have taken a standard sitcom premise -- mismatched people, in this case Scott as a college professor and Jami Gertz as the barely literate young volunteer who reads to him because he is blind -- then lumbered it with portentous yet unpursued references to battered women, child abuse, academic plagiarism, organized crime and the Bataan Death March (not to mention Beethoven's deafness, Baudelaire's profligacy and the evolutionary significance of the animal in the title). Despite these highfalutin distractions, the story trudges along to its always foreseeable end: the old man dies but lives on in the young woman...