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Sounds of Brazil(SOB's)204 Varick St. at Houston Street (243-4940): Latin dance music, from traditional salsa to pounding jungle and hip-hop-infused sets. Cover...
...where they exchange long-concealed secrets. Gracie (Madeleine Stowe) pursues an adulterous, purely sexual relationship with Roger (Edwards), a no-strings-attached acquaintance with an ironic occupation. The most compelling story involves Hugh (Quaid), a character who wanders through various bars and restaurants telling pathetic, and each time different, sob stories to the people he meets. Finally, the night club atmosphere is the setting for love between the obnoxious, talkative Joan (Jolie) and the quiet, mysterious Keenan (Philippe...
...keys into a bowl, the women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships are formed--a surer route to public embarrassment than to private ecstasy. The omens are clear: the founderings of all these nice people will lead to trouble. A child must be sacrificed; men must sob at their loss. The Ice Storm, says Ang Lee, director of this daring epic in miniature, is "a disaster movie. Except the disaster hits home...
Thus Evelyn Anderson, 82, a resident of the mammoth Sun City retirement community outside Phoenix, paid an astonishing $10,562 last year to a repairman who fixed some sprinklers and, while at it, wangled a loan with a phony sob story. "I felt sorry for him, going through a divorce and all that," says Anderson...
...acting Stewart was capable of. MGM director W.S. Van Dyke II pegged him as "unusually usual." To the brass at Metro, who signed Stewart in 1935, the label meant he was a sensitive fellow with zero sex appeal--not the stuff of celebrity. So he was made to sob through After the Thin Man (pssst: he dunnit), shuffle through Born to Dance (he wasn't), swivel on skates in Ice Follies...