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...Stratton Student Center] is pretty much where people come to hang out, eat...it's actually a mall-type environment," says MIT senior Jerry Rivera. "We don't get into Kendall Square much...it's nice to have a lot of shops and things there, but the student center is the place we go every...
Russell D. Rivera...
...Niels Lauersen is a Park Avenue infertility expert and a best-selling author with a high-wattage clientele. He hobnobs with socialites and celebrities--many of whom swear they would be childless but for his treatment. And he has been dubbed the "dyno gyno" by no less than Geraldo Rivera, whose wife was a patient. But last week Lauersen could be found in a distinctly unglamorous locale: Manhattan federal court, where he faces more than a decade of prison time...
...Told alongside all of this energetic hoopla is the story of Nelson Rockefeller (John Cusack) and his patronage of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (Ruben Blades), providing another example of the complex problems that can result when artistic statement is bound to a controlling force. Young Rockefeller didn't count on Rivera painting Lenin and syphilis cells in the lobby of Rockefeller Center, so he orders the mural jackhammered off of the wall in a strikingly literal expression of the casual tyranny of commerce. Yet perhaps the most poignant thread of the film is its only fictional tale, that...
...their parts and do their best to bring them to life in quick, bold strokes. Among the most remarkable are Cherry Jones, whose tough-talking moll displays a deep belief in the power and necessity of the theater, and Ruben Blades, who melts into his small role as Diego Rivera in a perfect impersonation. John Turturro shines brightly as Aldo Silvano, a dedicated member of the "Cradle" cast who parts ways with his family of Italian nationalists. John Cusack is effective as the affably cocky Rockefeller, and Bill Murray and Joan Cusack hit both comic highs and notes of genuine...