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Jake Gyllenhaal has just those qualities, plus huge brown eyes and a fretful mouth, giving him the look of a spaniel afraid he's about to be swatted. He won kind notices in October Sky and The Good Girl, and now in Moonlight Mile he heads a cast that includes Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Holly Hunter. What's more, he is playing a young man who, after his fiance's death by gunfire, is living with her grieving parents (Hoffman and Sarandon). Can he carry all that freight...
Moonlight Mile's finest performance is by a virtual unknown, Ellen Pompeo, as a bereft soul who becomes Gyllenhaal's love interest. Forging a deep bond with the actor and the audience, Pompeo is lovely, funny, intense--star quality in the making. Now let's see if she and Hollywood know what to do with it. --By Richard Corliss
...Harvard men’s cross-country team’s hopes of a win over Yale and an undefeated Ivy dual record were dashed on Saturday by a metal flag pole that sliced open the bottom of senior Taylor Banks’ eye in the last half mile of the race...
...flag pole, which marks a major bend in the five-mile course, snapped back and cut Banks’ lower eyelid just as he and freshman Tim Galeback were putting in a surge to chase down a pack of three Yale runners...
Finishing behind Seidel to take third was senior John Traugott, who helped Bienvenu to attack Yale’s leading pack in the last mile. Gaelback finished eighth and Banks came through in 10th place...