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"Company" is a bit ambiguous. It is neither a paen to marriage nor a free-love condemnation of monogamy. The interactions between the men and women, both believable and funny, show all the complexities of romantic relationships. A typical morning-after scene between Bobby and April has him begging her...
The story comes to an apparent climax, logically enough, at a disco. (Watching a mostly-white crowd in polyester evening wear gyrating to bad funk riffs makes one remember what made the seventies so special.) In a drunken conversation with Joanne, Bobby comes to an epiphany about his romantic life...
THE CATCH, FOR WINFREY OR any other movie woman, is that those films had better enhance studios' purses. Male Hollywood may congratulate itself on allowing these women's films, then blame a whole genre--indeed, a whole gender--if a few flop. "Women don't get the second chances men...
ROCK PERFORMERS USED TO THINK big. In the '70s and '80s, groups like Led Zeppelin and Genesis turned songs into epics stretching for seven, eight, nine minutes. But for the past several years--in part influenced by Nirvana, whose visceral songs got much of their power from their brutal succinctness...
SPECTACULAR SWEEP, ROMANTIC grandeur, narrative richness, an improbably happy, morally instructive ending--Les Miserables, which is less an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel than a melodramatic meditation on its themes, has all the old-fashioned, totally unfashionable virtues.