Word: phenoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DEAD AGAIN. Kenneth Branagh, Shakespearean phenom of the London stage, hatched an improbable hit from this no-star film noir. Branagh has fun ransacking Hitchcock's skeleton closet, and his wife Emma Thompson is ravishing as the doomed heroine, but there's not much here to prop up a preposterous plot...
...film, directed by video phenom Alek Keshishian, trails Madonna through Japan, North America and Europe as she pursues her hobby (rock star supreme) and her full-time job (do-it-yourself mythmaker). This is show biz, remember, where image elbows achievement out of the frame. Madonna knows this. She is the most self-aware, perhaps the sanest, of celebrities. So Truth or Dare doesn't dwell on what she has done. We know she has done plenty, done well and, in her AIDS-relief fund raising, done good. Keshishian shows us what Madonna thinks she is -- and what she, driven...
...teammate's small son, who looks at the casket and says, "Is my daddy in there?" The second is the query of a friendly sportswriter who asks whether the pitcher realizes he may never recapture his skill. "Yes" is the bitter double answer. Smoke, indeed, from a fireballing phenom...
...Harvard men's hockey team did just that in beating league-leading Clarkson last night, 5-3, at Bright Center. The Crimson's two Teds--Captain Donato and sophomore phenom Drury--each potted a pair of goals to help Harvard keep alive its home-ice hopes...
...Crimson's hopes for the meet rested in the 200-yard breaststroke, but Harvard could manage only a fourth place finish behind Princeton's freshman phenom Nelson Diebel, Leroy Kim, and Josh Snyder...