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...MARIO CUOMO: There are other living legends like Ted Williams, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax, whose remarkable powers as baseball players approximate DiMaggio's. But none of these had the beyond-the-baseball dimension that gave DiMaggio a unique place as a popular icon. Their reputation, their image, is purely baseball. Williams was amazing at bat. Mays was a better hitter, almost as good an all-around player. But the truth is, DiMaggio appears to be irreplaceable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 60 Second Symposium | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...CUOMO, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who thought about running but then announced he wouldn't in order to spend time helping AL GORE get elected President. Now there are hopes that he may reconsider and get in the race if Hillary decides not to. His father MARIO CUOMO was disappointed by his initial decision, and has let his feelings be known. "I certainly hope that he would reconsider if it turns out that Hillary doesn't get in the race," the former New York Governor told TIME last week. But his son says that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: A Senate Candidate Waiting in the Wings? | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...audience's attention with very little definitive action. A good sized portion of the film consists of dance numbers, in which Storaro takes advantage of the studio setting to use shadow, silhouette, distorted mirrors and moody lighting gels to create a dreamlike, often unrealistic effect. In the empty studio, Mario plays out his romantic fantasies and nightmares, always leaving a tinge of uncertainty as to what is real and what is imagined. Into this world Mario draws the other characters, helplessly entangled as their emotions become prey to the violent expressiveness of the tango...

Author: By Julie Rattey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dance With Me: It Takes Saura To Tango | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...film culminates with several gripping sequences (featuring Elena) from Mario's film. The audience is enraptured with the fatal attraction of the dance. Yet suddenly we are briefly jerked back to the unresolved reality of the plot before the credits begin to roll, leaving the audience without a lasting impression which seemed so promising just a few moments before...

Author: By Julie Rattey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dance With Me: It Takes Saura To Tango | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Despite the failure of movies modeled after successful video games--most notably Super Mario Brothers and Mortal Kombat--Hollywood still hasn't realized that video games do not work on the big screen. This phenomenon is even more applicable to Wing Commander, a computer game that already bills itself as an interactive movie. There is absolutely no need to make the transition between computer screen and theater screen. As soon as the interactive element is gone, there is little to capture the interest of the audience. Wing Commander: The Movie crashes and burns...

Author: By Brian R. Walsh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fly By | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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