Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because in the Year of Perpetual Polling, the public never caught the fever of the combatants. Week after week the argument was framed by the extremes: the politicians and the pundits created a cross fire in which every action was cast as either a partisan plot or an assault on justice. Yet no matter how appalling the details, the public generally kept its distance from the shouting and weighed the evidence carefully...
...Reagan High's coolest coeds dies swallowing a candy jawbreaker. To cover up this gaffe, bitch-on-heels Courtney (Rose McGowan, below, right) tries turning a geekette who knows about the death (Judy Evans Greer) into a fox goddess. A teen twist on the old Frankenstein-Pygmalion plot is as familiar as last week, when it was called She's All That. (And a decade ago, it was the evil-teen classic Heathers.) Writer-director Stein flirts with black humor but, alas, never goes all the way. As for McGowan, she has the buxom wantoness and smartly cruel mouth...
...alighted on Prime, seen previously in both installments of that I Know...Summer series, they simply had to surrender the film to him. He is a magnet in front of the camera. In comparison, Laney Boggs is a mere prop to his masculine narrative. In both screen time and plot weight, Prinze's character receives much more emphasis than any other. The scrawny effort to inflate his persona, with the injection of an overbearing father and the angst of being too overachieving, is pitiful--but Prinze carries it off with a demeanor that cries, "Who needs a viable screenplay with...
...Sarah Michelle Gellar movie." Indeed, the trailer for the film was in every commercial break of Gellar's Buffy the Vampire Slayer over the last few weeks, and the audience of that show is the best one for this overcooked Valentine. The plot centers around Gellar's Amanda Shelton, a young woman whose mother has died and left her to run the family restaurant. The film begins just as the restaurant is about to go under, until a mysterious man shows up and sells her a basket of live crabs. One escapes and leads her to Tim Bartlett (Sean Patrick...
...Hillel has made another trade withHarvard. Under this new deal, the Hillel gives upits remaining rights to lease 74 Mt. Auburn forthe right to build Rosovsky Hall on the plot ofland on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plymptonbehind the Fly Club...