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...duplicitous lothario confronted by the two women he's been dating simultaneously (see review). And he has two more films coming out this year: In Dreams, in which he plays a psycho telepathically stalking Annette Bening, and Friends and Lovers, an indie comedy-drama that finds him playing a ski instructor. Though he must return each night to a rehab center for the next few months, he's been enjoying his newly gained freedom--eating pizza his first night out, shopping for high-fashion slacker duds, catching a matinee of Lost in Space with his four-year-old son Indio...
OLYMPICS 18th Olympics (winter), Nagano, Japan 72 nations attended 1,512 men, 827 women Germany won the most medals, 29 (12 gold) Some events: curling, snowboarding, ski jumping...
Juxtaposed against these movers and shakers on spring break are the lift operators, ski patrol and resort workers: the locals. These tough and hardy souls sacrifice their "earning potential," as we would say in Harvard vernacular, for something we don't have: 120 days of skiing a year in the peace, beauty and allure of the mountains...
...here I am in perhaps the most free state in the Union, exercising my measly seven days of vacation by skiing out West, wondering why I don't join this esteemed crowd of freeloaders and ski right though second semester. In recognizing this desire, I am forced to acknowledge a deeper question. Since the closest I will ever get to being a "local" is as a spring break visitor, who will I be in 30 years...
...resort guest's propensity to write off the lives of the locals as insignificant in comparison to their own grandiose existence, they sometime forget that the freedom locals have is precisely what they lack. These pompous guests I see every day at the ski resort are people for whom freedom was traded for money, success and one week of skiing a year. These are people we are in danger of becoming...