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...Williams (Kevin Spacey) deals in antiques and other old secrets, with a suavity that beguiles the gentry. When he kills a young punk who was his lover, Williams loses a few friends but attracts the attention of a Yankee journalist (John Cusack) who becomes his fond, skeptical biographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SHORT TAKES: MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...conservative politically. Many of us believe that getting ahead is most important. A Harvard student may choose not to write a term paper with a queer theme to accommodate a professor's homophobia. A Harvard student may choose tactfully omit a pronoun to avoid revealing the gender of a lover. A Harvard queer knows when and how to pass as straight--we know what to say, how to smile and how to dress. We can slip in and out from subculture to mainstream and back again because we want to be in that sorority or that Finals Club. We sacrifice...

Author: By Diana L. Adair, | Title: The Ivy Closet | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Try sympathetic comedy about another famous N.Y. Knicks lover: Marv Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE HOLIDAY STOCKING IS TOO FULL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

CHARLOTTE FALTERMAYER has been following the trail of Anne Marie Fahey since the secretary, who worked for Delaware Governor Thomas Carper, disappeared 17 months ago. Last May, Faltermayer traveled to Fahey's Wilmington home and scouted out the posh neighborhood of her lover--and accused killer--Thomas Capano. After Capano was arrested, Faltermayer staked out O'Friel's pub, unofficial headquarters of the hunt for Fahey--or her murderer. For Faltermayer, detective stories are becoming familiar territory. She reported on a 1977 Philadelphia slaying and on the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Streamlining Henry James's notoriously dense novel, this film brings its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but impoverished English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to pay court to a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The close-up cinematography brings out the superb performances of the three stars--especially Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures her character's complexities...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: The Wings of the Dove | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

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