Word: manly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...donor purchased Willa Cather's My Antonia and Lucy Gayheart, Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man, and The Portable Dorothy by Dorothy Parker for $10,000 at Christie's auction house in October...
Bicentennial Man...
...film progresses, as the title suggests, over 200 years, and in that time Andrew is granted his freedom and embarks on a lengthy search for others like him. What he finds instead is an eccentric scientist (Oliver Platt) willing to help Andrew look and feel more like a real man...
...emotion, not science, drives Bicentennial Man. The film's heart is Andrew's relationship with four generations of the Martin family, particularly Little Miss and her granddaughter (also played by Davidtz). This story manages to be heartwarming and engaging, as does Andrew's struggle to find his identity. But all of these emotions partially paint over the plot's more intriguing implications. By the second half of the film, when Asimov's grander concepts begin to emerge, Kazan and Columbus too often choose obvious tearjerking over any true exploration. The film's vision of the future is drawn in similar...
...double-decker Golden Gate Bridge. And the key futuristic detail, the robot star himself, is a lot of fun to watch. His movements strike an intriguing balance between fluidity and mechanics, while in the face, Robin Williams the robot is a curious metallic echo of Robin Williams the man...