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Upstaging Pacino is Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace; he's cocky as hell, he's arrogant, he's sometimes petulant, but he's got all the good lines and uses them well. A scenery-chewing performance could have done fine, but Plummer develops Wallace into something other than a flat...

Author: By Rheanna Bates, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Where There's Smoke | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

And a closely watched one too. Quite apart from being a timely test of war by committee (take note, NATO), it's Kasparov's first public confrontation with computer technology since his match with IBM's Deep Blue in 1997. Those games, billed as a historic confrontation between man and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kasparov's World War | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

The other leading roles are quite capably filled. Carlson plays the supercilious psychiatrist excellently; his haughty posture is such that he manages to look down his nose even at the towering Skeist. Price is similarly condescending as Baron Belcredi, weathering Matilda's insults and ruthlessly mocking Frida while always maintaining...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oh, Henry! Allusions of Grandeur | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

The other leading roles are quite capably filled. Carlson plays the supercilious psychiatrist excellently; his haughty posture is such that he manages to look down his nose even at the towering Skeist. Price is similarly condescending as Baron Belcredi, weathering Matilda's insults and ruthlessly mocking Frida while always maintaining...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oh, Henry! allusions of grandeur | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Framed by lip balm on one end and lipliner on the other, girls' middle-school years are marked by revolutionary metamorphoses. A familiar story for our tragic heroes: In fifth grade, make-up piques their interest, for real. Mom's light green Clinique freebie lipstick peppered subtly on petulant mouths...

Author: By J. S. Paul, | Title: BALM-OFF: three critical perspectives | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

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