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...attempt was ever made to coordinate the efforts of the various committees, much less to publicize them—a sin whether by omission or intention. The increasing proliferation of administrators and committees (which take away valuable energy from teaching and research) is perhaps a case of too many cooks. But worse still is that each cook was given a different utensil and put incommunicado in a separate room. Few faculty I have spoken with object to serving on committees when their tasks are meaningful; but when it becomes obvious that the administration hopes only for committee members to rubber...
Which is what Sharkboy wants to be but can't. Robert Rodriguez, the film's writer, director, cinematographer, editor, composer and probably caterer, has made lots of good movies, from El Mariachi to Sin City, but they're all in 2-D. His stereoscopic films, Spy Kids 3-D and this one, are pretty lame. Sharkboy has an especially frantic, amateur atmosphere, with a mostly maladroit cast (George Lopez lends some charm to the four roles he plays). The script, based on a notion by Rodriguez's 7-year-old son, creates a universe whose physical laws and narrative rules...
...real sin of that little old man blinking in the California sunlight was against narrative conventions. If you go back and study the movie version of All the President's Men, which retains, long after the fact, its itchy power, you see that without Deep Throat, it would be a much less absorbing film. Mostly it is about a pair of reporters wearing out shoe leather, often enough in broad daylight or under the bright lights of the Washington Post newsroom, as they pursue their frustrating leads. That is entertaining, especially because we know how high the stakes...
DIED. OSCAR BROWN JR., 78, jazz singer, songwriter and playwright who infused his work with the sociopolitical truths of black American life; of complications from a blood infection; in Chicago. Brown, an actor on TV shows like Brewster Place and Roc, recorded such albums as 1960's Sin & Soul ... and Then Some and produced the stage revue Opportunity, Please Knock, employing high-profile gang members in the cast. "I wanted to present a picture of black culture," he said, "to anyone who could hear...
...Francisco--128%, 108%, 65%. Fortunes are being made, jealousies are being kindled and the claws are coming out--literally. In Manhattan, where the average apartment costs more than $1 million, the housing market is so cutthroat that a real estate agent attacked a seller--who had committed the sin of not hiring a broker--at his open house...