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Harvard has had a difficult time getting set-up in the offensive zone, especially with its second unit. The team's best stick handlers are its forwards, so Mazzoleni has tried to have them carry the puck through the neutral zone, but too often they have run out of options by the blueline...
Upon entering the first-year dorm, Tenney spots some council members, going door to door to raise support for the council's proposed term-bill hike that will appear on the ballot. Tenney hustles up the stairs in front of the representatives, thinking that the reaction to the second of two council canvasses might not be warm...
...bundle of nervous tics that Penn knows how to make believable. Emmet is, in addition to being a performance artist, a kleptomaniac, pimp and all-around heel, who somehow comes off as a nice guy despite himself. The running joke of the movie is that Emmet Ray is the second greatest jazz guitarist of his time, and the two times that Emmet has encountered number one, the real-life figure Django Reinhardt (this Gypsy guitar player from France), he fainted on sight. Penn handles the movies many slapstick moments with gusto, including a terrific scene in which Emmet crashes through...
...Despite its short running time the movie does occasionally become tiresome in its second half, when Morton drops out of the picture to make way for a fancier enchantress. Unfortunately, Uma Thurman disappoints as Blanche, an Anais Nin wannabe with a fetish for performing geniuses: the amusing concept of her character doesnt justify her time on screen. The period detail, though sumptuously photographed by Chinese cinematographer Zhao Fei, doesnt hold interest on its own. Happily, the film finds its way back again in the end when Emmet shows up outside Hatties laundry. A lovely scene between Penn and Morton...
...last 12 days, the Harvard men's basketball team has missed a potential game-winner, lost on a last-second shot, and has gotten outrebounded, outscored and outshot...