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...best moment in What Dreams May Come occurs when Max Von Sydow, the great staple of films specializing in theological torment, enters. The actor who challenged Death to a game of chess in The Seventh Seal appears as a Tracker to guide Robin Williams in his journey through hell. The casting of Von Sydow is uncannily perfect, suitably dramatic and humorous at once. Unfortunately, except for Von Sydow, Vincent Ward's film fails to reconcile its diverse tones. What Dreams May Come is a remarkably inconsistent work, failing at a very basic level to present uniform structure and characters...
Harvard would like to use that advantage to add some numbers to the win column and will play Pittsburgh, Manhattan and St. John's in the round-robin tournament at the Malkin Athletic Center...
Revenues from projects filmed in the Bay State have mushroomed from about $5 million three-and-a-half years ago to more than $101 million last year from feature films alone, according to Robin E. Dawson, executive director of the Massachusetts Film Office...
...economist with access to China's leaders, they are contemplating an early 1999 devaluation that could reach 30%, depending on how far the Japanese yen drops. With the rest of Asia struggling to find a way out of recession, such a move could set off a new round-robin of devaluations. China knows the stakes for itself as well: it has seen how lowering rates in Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Indonesia and Russia gutted those economies...
Helen Hunt, garlanded with Oscars and Emmys, plays Viola in Nicholas Hytner's production; but the show's real star is Crowley. He has joined the short list of masters in a fertile era for stage designers. Such wizards of pencil and paint as Tony Walton (Guys and Dolls), Robin Wagner (Crazy for You), John Napier (Cats) and Heidi Ettinger (The Secret Garden) create unique worlds from a playwright's words and a director's hopes. When you leave a show "humming the sets," these are the folks to thank for those sumptuous visual melodies...