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O.K., you say, you know where OSCAR AND LUCINDA is heading--toward the kind of happy, reconciling ending that usually crowns romantic period adventures. Don't get too comfortable with that thought. For this story, adapted from Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel by Laura Jones and directed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DECK THE PLEX WITH TARANTINO | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

With its ridiculously large cast of characters, this production might easily have been allowed to ride on the abilities of a few, letting mediocrity slide by around the edges. Fortunately, that isn't an issue here; each of the central players demonstrate a startlingly high level of energy. As the...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Mikado' Through Anime Eyes | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

For starters, these movies have the same costume designer in miracle-worker Sandy Powell. And, as any true aficionado of the Kevin Bacon Game can tell you, Wings' Elizabeth McGovern was in the otherwise forgettable romantic comedy The Favor with Interview star Brad Pitt. (Actually, The Favor is forgettable anyway...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

Heck, six months ago My Best Friend's Wedding hit the jackpot with a plot about what?--a lovelorn, self-centered and gorgeous young woman who tries but fails to manipulate her friends into her own romantic designs. Imagine the profit jumps if they retitled the James adaptation My Best...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

Like everyone else in the play, the twins' employer Orson (Jerry Ruiz '00) doesn't realize that he's dealing with two different people when he hires them: he thinks they're both a boy named "Charlie." Because Cockburn and Gambuto sport such similar attire--black T-shirts, vinyl pants...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Your Own Thing' Tries Revamping 'Twelfth Night,' Result Is Mixed | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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