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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many a scandal-plagued politician, IMELDA MARCOS is trying for a comeback. The former Philippine First Lady, who is appealing her conviction on corruption charges, says she will run for a seat in the Philippine Congress. She is said to be a shoe...
Much of "Shallow Grave" consists of the roommates' attempts to outdo each other with perverse sexual propositions. Early on, when Juliet sticks her shoe in Alex's mouth, prompting him to kiss her ankle, it becomes obvious that they are more than just housemates. The mechanics of their friendship seem believable, but it's harder to accept their lusty rapport. Eccleston and Fox lack chemistry; their sexual interactions are stiff and unnatural...
Hanks' career is emblematic of the Man of the Year award--it doesn't mean much, but it pretends to something substantial. He has risen above forgettable films such as "The Man With One Red Shoe" and "Bonfire of the Vanities" to carve a name for himself. There is no Tom Hanks action figure, but he is a recognized personality. He has made successful feelgood movies in an industry driven by profit-turning action flicks. His sympathetic performance in a formulaic dying-man role gleaned him an Oscar for "Philadelphia...
Basketball is called the city game, but that's not quite right. The really slick American city game is played by college and high school coaches, sports agents, shoe manufacturers, sportswriters and TV producers. It involves conning kids--mostly poor black kids--into believing that they can grow up to play professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School...
...happily married man who has been passed over for her job--and with whom, a decade earlier, she had a hot affair. The role reversal alone gives the story some curiosity value. It may even be, as people connected with the movie version keep insisting in interviews, that the shoe-on-the-other-foot approach to this situation will Make You Think...