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...Dreams," is the source of its popularity. But this film cannot just be deemed a "basketball movie". Grouping it in a lump with "White Men Can't Jump" would be as much of a travesty as categorizing the engrossing documentary "Paris Is Burning" with the much more shallow "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." More than a basketball movie, "Hoop Dreams" asks questions about social conditions that require our immediate attention. By exploring one subject so intensively, the film manages to transcend itself and delves into issues ranging from domestic violence to drug dealing to affirmative action...
...virus, carried by the popular media and infecting anyone who has a little talent and big gaudy dreams. The difference is that, in many other shows, the Warner Bros. star whom the hero might dream of being is not Cagney but Bette Davis, patron saint of bitchery, proto-queen of camp...
Nyman spends half the year developing his attitude in the solitude of an 18th century farmhouse in the French Pyrenees, where he lives with his Estonian wife Aet. A couple of months a year at his other home in north London enables him to indulge his passion for the Queen's Park Rangers soccer team; the rest of the time he's on the road with the band...
...hopes of capturing an interview with tabloid queen and Olympic silver-medalist Nancy Kerrigan, unauthorized camera crews and reporters descended on Bright Hockey Center last night for the Eliot House ice skating charity An Evening With Champions...
...solution to public dissatisfaction with the House of Windsor? There are two options, both of which address the problems of the current royals while preserving the richness of a constitutional monarchical government. The first is to keep Queen Liz et al. in their present place, and serialize their trials and tribulations on BBC-1. In many ways the royals do satisfy our need for instant gratification--so why not acknowledge it and give them their own television series? "Melrose Place" and "90210" will finally have some stiff competition. After all, as the Economist points out, even Bagehot conceded that...