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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while, a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Joining Feaster on the Kodak All-America Team were Sales, Tennessee's Chamique Holdsclaw and Tamika Catchings, Stanford's Kristin Folkl, N.C. State's Chasity Melvin, Florida's Muriel Page, Old Dominion's Ticha Penicheiro, North Carolina's Tracy Reid and Texas Tech's Alicia Thompson...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Feaster Named Kodak All-American; Senior One of the Nation's Ten Best | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

LATE: "After a two-hour delay, Clinton stepped...onto a stage...'I didn't know his hair was that gray,' said second-grader Sam Melvin, 8. 'Or that his face was that red,' added classmate Kate Ferguson. --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

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