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...existed at all-is long gone. The on-the-street glamour, the raucous high society party Golightly throws, the cleanness and safety of the city (Golightly indiscriminately buzzes strangers into the apartment building) and, of course, Hepburn's incredible wardrobe place the film in a never-never land of sweet fantasy much like Tiffany's itself...
...Justice's skillfully rendered tales were seldom sweet. He liked to tell his law clerks about the time he confronted a "moderate" white-supremacist politician in the Jim Crow South with the fact that contrary to the segregationist promise of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites, the whites in the state had a school for nursing while the blacks had none. The politician told Marshall that he could get the state to build a school for blacks, but that Marshall had to allow the politician to use his own methods. Marshall agreed, whereupon the politician immediately called...
...Play gets raves. As much as penthouse comedy dominated the '20s or political agitprop informed the '30s, AIDS has defined American theater this past decade -- both in the ravaging of the creative community and in the flowering of dramas on the subject. There are angry plays (The Normal Heart), sweet plays (As Is), pageants (Angels in America) and musicals (Falsettos). Some soar into poignant metaphor. Prelude to a Kiss and Marvin's Room are really about responsibilities of marriage and family; the plays say that relationships of love or blood must be sustained even as the objects of our affection...
...fame) and Abbey Lincoln, a film portraying the difficulties of family life in the segregated South. The well-developed characters showed that stories about African-Americans could be done without reducing the complexity of their lives to easy formulas. As the glitter-ridden elevator-shoed '70s dawned, the seminal "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" sparked what would become the Blaxploitation era of filmmaking. Since then, Black film has gone on to be characterized by mainstream stars such as Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and more recently by independent filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Spike Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Julie...
...truths here are that life is uphill and that cheerfulness makes the climb easier. These are bromides familiar from many a TV disease-of-the-week movie, and Sayles takes his sweet time mixing them. The film consumes two hours plus, yet the ending seems abrupt, as if Act III was left off. It has the feel of a short story that went on too long...