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...awards ceremony after the game, Botterill was awarded a pile of honors, and the Canadian team was awarded their gold medals, while the American team-including defenseman Angela Ruggiero, Botterill's former Harvard roommate-could only watch. Tueting never removed her goaltender's mask through the course of the ceremony...
...Happily, I am prone to both conditions, and I remember my childhood excursions to Three Rivers with great pleasure. My family - or more often, my father, my brother and I - would pile into the car, make the quick trip downtown, and park just across the river from the stadium, where we'd walk across the Fort Duquesne bridge, past the statues of Roberto Clemente and Art Rooney...
...orgiastic storylines which are no better than something you would see on late-night Showtime. And even though I adore "Jackass," it certainly is not "responsible"-the opening disclaimer is written parodically and the stunts can easily be imitated (set yourself on fire, straddle a skunk, dive into a pile of elephant poop, chase naked midgets around South Central, etc.). Second, the Madonna video-directed by her husband Guy Ritchie-is not only relatively tame, but also profoundly significant. Beautifully photographed and set to an edgy dance-remix of the song, it depicts a battered wife who tears around town...
Between Potter's petty pouts and the grossly implausible plot twists, exacerbated by the clumsy adaptation, it looks like this shabby attempt at thrills and chills will be quickly relegated to the "been there, done that" pile. What with rampant murders, prosthetic faces, and a thermos full of diamonds thrown out a train window (don't ask), Along Came A Spider verges on the absurd. One would at least think that Freeman is talented and dependable enough to be able to choose better movies. Or maybe screenwriter Marc Moss just has to learn that what may be good...
From the start of Bands on the Run (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), however, money isn't simply the name of the game; it is the game. Four unsigned bands pile into vans and go from city to city playing club dates. At the end, $50,000, a video on VH1, a shot at a record deal and $100,000 in equipment go to the best band--that is, whichever one made the most scratch selling tickets and merchandise. It's good TV--the competition heightens the stress and personality clashes on the road--and a depressing, if true, statement about...