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...proporation right now is probably good," said the council's Vice President-elect Samuel C. Cohen '00, chair of the Campus Life Committee(CLC)--which organizes social events...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Funding Survey Results Released | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Adapted from Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, the plot follows a female flight attendant (Pam Grier) as she sets about holding on to some cash, orbited by a small-time gunrunner (Samuel L. Jackson) and a lovelorn bailbondsman (Robert Forster). Unfortunately, Tarantino has complicated things by letting too much B-movie slip into his creation: specifically, bits of a score from the blaxploitation movie Coffy and a none-too-riveting acting style on the part of the title's heroine...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B-Movie Heroine Chic: Tarantino's Hyper-Hip Brew Potent No More | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...Samuel L. Jackson produces and stars in this gothic tale of infidelity and voodoo in the Louisiana bayou, but graciously hands the story over to the lesser known actresses surrounding him, including Debbi Morgan as a haunted clairvoyant and Jurnee Smollett as his precocious daughter. Director and writer Kasi Lemmons demonstrates impressive style and maturity in this dark, hypnotic film. --Jeremy J. Ross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...Bayou "The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old." With these words, writer-director Kasi Lemmons begins a story of family love, lust and deceit. Samuel L. Jackson and Debbi Morgan shine in--what? The best film ever made by a black American? Could well be. The year's most haunting family drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE BEST CINEMA OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, the writer-director tosses half a dozen wary people into the pit of their avarice and lets us guess who will survive. Pam Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face is a road map of disappointment in the venality of humankind...

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

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