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Teenagers (and most other people for that matter) are likely to encounter Gas Food Lodging only by chance, given its modest release pattern and the fact that it is going forth unpopulated with major stars, unequipped with big-time advertising and utterly devoid of glamour. But Allison Anders' film is like its main characters -- spunky, smart, tougher than they look -- and one wants to believe that the film, like them, will somehow make its way in an uncaring world...
...Charles Barkley keep his elbows to himself? The answers are: no, no and most definitely not. "Charles is Charles," says Michael Jordan. "He's not crazy. He just likes to push his behavior to the edge." Jordan and his teammates have been trying to push it back, with only modest success. When Barkley threw an elbow at Angola's spindly David Dias in the U.S. team's first outing, he was quickly yanked offstage by director-coach Chuck Daly...
Library assistant Geoff Carens says he would have supported stronger union demands, but library assistant James Adler says he thinks this year's modest demands are fair. Carens says he advocates stronger tactics, "group action" in the form of walkouts or sickouts, while library assistant Laura Ruth Jarrett is skeptical of such moves: "That feels like playing their childish game...
...earned many critics' indulgences. It does have some B-movie virtues: director Carl Franklin gives the actors space to breathe the rancid air of paperback tough- guy tragedy; and Williams, with her lovely insolence, looks like star quality from here. But to pin four-star raves on this modest melodrama is to mistake a 7-Eleven candy snatcher for a master thriller killer...
Very few people concur in this modest account of his work...