Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last weekend, we decided to stay closer to home. This time, we traveled ten minutes to the Orange County Museum of Art, a fairly small modern art museum which we had never visited. Once again, I was surprised and impressed. Being relatively small and specializing in modern art, the museum of course has its share of pieces that I don't particularly care for, but it also has many that are quite good...
...opinion, it's much more difficult to find very good modern art than it is to find very good old art because all of the really bad old art was thrown out or burned a long time ago. But this museum, located across the street, around a corner and a few blocks down from a movie theater and food court that I go to all the time had some very good modern...
...black comedy, Killing Mrs. Tingle. "You'll read a script where the characters are 40 years old, and the studio will ask if they can be in their early 20s instead." The moguls also think of how the Amy Heckerling comedy Clueless transformed Jane Austen's Emma into a modern-teen hit, and they dip some literary favorite into the fountain of youthpix. The fall film Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun, is "The Taming of the Shrew in high school." Next year's Cruel Inventions, with Gellar and Dawson...
...fight over Cyprus all over again, starring ANTONIO BANDERAS this time. The Mask of Zorro star, apparently responding to pressure from Greek Americans, has pulled out of a movie about the life of MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK, founder of modern Turkey. At least that's the story being told by Tarquin Olivier, a financier and the son of actor Laurence Olivier. Though this is his initial venture in film production, he'd enlisted Bruce Beresford as director and, according to the New York Times, had managed to get a lot of the financing on the strength of Banderas' participation. The star...
...which is the lowest mark over such a long period in the postwar era. In 1994 his earned-run average was just 1.56. So far this year, it's 1.57. Sandy Koufax never had such a good year. Nor did Nolan Ryan. In fact, only two pitchers in modern baseball have: Bob Gibson (1.12 in 1968) and Dwight Gooden...