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...Forster hinted at both the opening of A Room with a View (a young lady in love in Italy) and the end of Howards End (an innocent who is carelessly sacrificed to class prejudice). Charles Sturridge's pretty film version, though, sees these subtle poignancies as placards, something to smash over his characters' empty heads as he sings, "Let's all be beastly to the British." One wants to tell him that Forster is not quite the stuff of expose...
Wolfgang Peterson directed this 1981 German box office smash about life on a German U-96 submarine during World War II. In gripping detail, Peterson describes the sweaty, claustrophobic quarters of the boat, and the soldiers' desperate situation as they are under constant threat of attack by the British Navy. Jurgen Pruchnow stars as the stern commander, trying to keep the German effort alive...
Lorne Michaels is executive producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live", and more recently the producer of the box-office smash Wayne's World. In a recent interview with 15 Minutes, Michaels spoke of his experiences behind the scenes of both productions...
Nurturing must come later in medical training. The general tone down here is typified by a scrawl in one of the first carrels: "Die of AIDS faggot before I smash your head...
...they seem to have reached their popularity peak, hovering in a musical purgatory, unable to produce a breakthrough to catapult them into the upper stratosphere of the Hit Heavens. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" demonstrated that it only takes one smash to accomplish this, but among the long and undistinguished song catalog that this middle-aged outfit drags behind them, such a gem is nowhere to be found...