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Clear skies and a mild breeze put smiles on the faces of seniors as they listened to the Class Day speech by NBC "Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw, students orations and award presentations. And at the urging of First Marshal Peter S. Cahn '96, the entire class stood to give a round of applause to parents, teachers and friends...
...against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash, the festival's mandatory annual outrage. This terminally creepy movie, from the J.G. Ballard novel about people who get sexual thrills from car carnage, could have been a moving meditation on auto-eroticism. The kinks are there but the pace...
...suffering--it does not require that the audience take them seriously. In "The Naked Eye," the back-patting that goes on at the highest levels of art and politics between people who would otherwise (and still may) hate each others' guts is simply an opportunity for farce and the mild surprises of that genre...
...CABLE GUY (June 14). Then again, the $20 million that Columbia paid Jim Carrey to appear in this comedy of obsession looks like the summer's canniest investment. With loose-dentured diction and bodice-ripping devotion, he leeches onto mild-mannered Matthew Broderick. Only a genius of goonery, an Ace Caricatura like Carrey, could play an egregious pest and make him appealing--at least for the 2 min. 25 sec. of the trailer...
While there may be mild irony in an upscale department store peddling a look that is based in part on thrift-store chic, fashion has long fed on pop-culture events for inspiration. Diane Keaton's shapeless slouch gear in Annie Hall and Jennifer Beals' off-the-shoulder Flashdance sweat shirts both set looks that lasted for months on the streets. Bloomingdale's plays the game, selling 500 yellow trench coats a la Dick Tracy in 1990. On the other hand, the store's executives weren't quite quick enough to lock in Alicia Silverstone and last year's Clueless...