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...This was initiated by the students out of a concern for the political situation,” said Phil Sharp, director...
...President Bush's hypocrisy has hit a new high. Here is a man posturing about the right to life and the need to protect the weak while at the same time avidly supporting the death penalty. Phil Wilde Cardiff, Wales...
...than the daytime shows that set up losers like piatas for moralizing hosts to whack. Intervention simply lets addicts and their families--who are trying to get them into rehab--tell their own stories. Its stark, judge-for-yourself approach proves scarier and more edifying than Dr. Phil could ever be. --By James Poniewozik
Watching Walter Lloyd conduct a high-speed car chase or evade pursuers by diving off a bridge into the icy waters of Hamburg harbor is, if you are a gentleman of a certain age, roughly equivalent to watching Phil Niekro win his 300th game. It extends the effective life of one's youthful fantasies a few minutes more. But while stimulating that harmless activity, Target also encourages a modest re-examination of the ideological scaffolding on which the older generation erected some of its dreamwork...
Such detail must seem irrelevant to Director Taylor Hackford; he knows that White Nights will be a hit only if it is seen as an extended music and dance video. With ingenious duplicity, Hackford has worked ten new pop tunes, by Phil Collins and Lionel Richie, among others, into a ballet film set in the U.S.S.R. He has also had the inspiration, radical by the standards of recent musicals, to keep his dancers' feet in the film frame, and to hold a shot long enough to anchor the loping rhythms of Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Hines taps and boogies--and acts...