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TAD: While the theater was not exactly inundated with people and the plot of the movie stank like rotten eggs, I was pleased with the performances of Chris Farley and Adam Sandler. Both Saturday Night Live regulars made the movie bearable and actually pretty funny at times. In one scene...

Author: By Terrance A. Dee, | Title: Can You Pluralize 'Stupid?' | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

Stone plays Charles with some discomfort. Charles is a stock character, a young vagabond whose ignorance makes him vacillate between over-confident threatening statements to pathetic acts of (sincere?) sorrow. I do not know if it is with the acting or the directing, but Charles needs to be slimier. He...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Mamet's 'Shawl' Hangs Heavy in the Summer Heat | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

First, I must tell you that rare is the occasion when I pick up a pen to write such a letter but the unusually snide tone of those reviews really offended me and I very much want to convey these feeling to you. I am not a personal friend of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review was 'Indefensible' and 'Snide' | 7/6/1994 | See Source »

The film stars Zbigniew Zamachowski as the over-grown boy of a man, Karol Karol. Like "Blue," the first movie in this series, "White" begins with the ending of a marriage. In the case of "Blue," Julie's husband and daughter are killed and she must seek and define her...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Love That Revenge in Kieslowski's White | 7/1/1994 | See Source »

THE PITCHING STINKS. "It's just bad pitches," says White Sox coach Jackie Brown. "A bad pitch is one in the middle of the strike zone," where the ball looks like a watermelon and the bat feels like a magic wand. In '94, entire pitching staffs are lobbing large fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going, Going, Not Quite Gone | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

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