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...regulars are gathered around the bar at Our Place, drinking cold colas to slake the Mojave Desert's midday parch, when somebody finally brings up the subject on everyone's mind: Erin Brockovich. "I remember the night the real Erin Brockovich walked in here," recalls bartender Lynn Tindell. "She was strutting her stuff. She knew all the guys were looking at her." Brockovich, as anyone who has seen the movie knows, was the sexy single mom who helped the residents of Hinkley, Calif., win a record $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating their well water with toxic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Getting Angry Over Erin | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...weren't life-threatening. (The lawyers deny having said this.) Masry and Brockovich didn't take Thelma Hunter's case either, though she has cancer of the right kidney and a shoulder eaten away by disease. Or Tom Owens', with his cancerous tumors. "Most of us got screwed," says Lynn Morris. "We didn't know about the original lawsuit. Only a little clique knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Getting Angry Over Erin | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

With Brown sophomore Rick Lynn at the plate, Merten took off from first, drawing a throw from Harvard catcher Brian Lentz. Merten then stopped short of second and deliberately entered into a rundown, enabling the lead runner to score from third uncontested...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Felled By Bears, 5-1 | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

Some fans drove overnight from Ottawa to hear her talk. Nicole Riess, Terra Kitzul and Lynn Kasinska, all architecture students at the Canadian Carleton University, wanted to see her in person before studying in London--Hadid's home city--next year...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Avante-Garde Architect Awes Audience | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

Awaiting their fate, we mostly have to make do with the comic mainstream, wherein The Whole Nine Yards is currently bobbing. Directed by Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny), it's a story more machined than created, in which Oz Oseransky (Matthew Perry), an innocent Canadian dentist, gets involved with a semiretired mob hit man (Bruce Willis) and a legion of his former colleagues who want to whack Willis for ratting out their boss. Somehow Oz survives, and gets the gunman's gorgeous ex-wife (Natasha Henstridge) for good measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can Irony Kill Comedy? | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

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