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...script ends up being the weakest part of the film. Though Jarmusch intended the Native American character to break the two stereotypes of either "the savage who must be eradicated...or the all-knowing sage...that must mix in completely with nature." The character Nobody seems to resemble the latter. He is both overly noble and gratingly mystic, even if his mysticism is related not to "nature" but to the writings of William Blake. Gary Farmer portrays Nobody with the kind of inscrutable poker-face we have come to expect from popular images of Native Americans...
...course, Disney's Mary Poppins and the character in the Travers books are two entirely different beings. The latter is somewhat fierce, somewhat formidable and perennially unfair. The point about the Mary Poppins of the books is that although wonderful things begin to happen when she arrives, she's not very nice to be around...
Auction fever crossed time zones faster than Air Force One. In Chicago Ralph Goldenberg, whose wife Helyn is a senior vice president of Sotheby's, spent $63,000 to buy J.F.K.'s putter, a Robot K-44, and gave it to his business partner, Christopher Heymeyer. The latter is now a minor celebrity at the Board of Trade, where the two work. "Everybody on the trading floor says, 'There's the guy; his partner bought him the putter.' There's a huge excitement," Heymeyer says. "Everybody on the trading floor says, 'Can I see it? Can I touch...
This is what things have come to in the latter days of school desegregation in Kansas City. For the sake of desegregation, blacks are sometimes barred from the most popular schools on account of their race, lest they tilt the enrollment too far from the goal of 35% white students. Like most urban systems, the Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) has lost white students to the suburbs in droves, which has made the task of achieving racial balance nearly impossible. After deciding that inner-city students could not be bused out to the suburbs as part of a mandatory...
They are not the first to find that transplanting skitcom to the big screen carries as many perils as seductions. Sometimes the result is Wayne's World, and sometimes It's Pat. Thanks for trying, Kids, but Brain Candy is the latter...