Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time (the 1950s) nor the place (the Jersey Shore) is propitious for a gourmet Italian restaurant. But the struggles of the immigrant Pilaggi brothers to impose their delicate risottos on a red-sauce culture are perhaps the year's most unlikely success. Primo, the chef (Tony Shalhoub), has the soul of an artist--watchful, uncompromising, mildly depressive. Secondo, the maitre d' (Stanley Tucci, who, with Campbell Scott, wrote and directed), is trying vainly to be an American entrepreneur. Stumbling toward bankruptcy, they also sail toward wisdom in this beautifully acted and utterly delicious comedy of--shall we say?--table manners...
...Fugees The Score (Ruffhouse/Columbia). Tough but tuneful, ready to entertain but unwilling to compromise, this Haitian-American rap trio proved that positive, semipolitical hip-hop could outsell gangsta rap--and alternative rock too. Drawing from reggae and soul, the Fugees created a fresh bicultural sound as bright as the Caribbean and as blunt as New Jersey...
...next revolution: the Reformation. Thirty-seven years after Gutenberg's death, young Martin Luther renounced his plans to become a lawyer (his father's idea) and instead, seized by spiritual anxiety, joined the Monastery of the Emerites of St. Augustine. It was a fateful decision. Luther's tortured soul, which attached itself to new ideas with a fervor that seems strikingly modern, turned in a decade's time against the institution he had vowed to serve and created one of history's greatest religious splinter groups. Rome wanted to suppress his ideas, but Luther quickly found that the printing press...
...does Dorothy. Hiding a romantic soul under a patient and realistic manner, she's just the woman to keep a grounded high-flyer functioning out of a home office. And to show him that love is something more than a contact sport...
...star quality. Just before Eva's death, she sings the film's one new tune, which sounds eerily like an act of faith: You Must Love Me. But love or hate Madonna-Eva, she is a magnet for all eyes. You must watch her. And to find the soul of the modern musical for once on the big screen, you must see Evita...