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...first half hour was spent in my office as every member of TIME's tech department had his picture taken with the cup. Then I put it in its case and wheeled it to 48th Street Pawnbrokers, where owner Linda Tillman sized it up. Linda didn't know much about hockey, but she knew the price of silver. She appraised it at $250 and offered us a loan for half that before three businessmen spotted it and came rushing in. Seeing publicity opportunities, Linda raised her bid to $1,000. "No pawnshop pays that much," she assured...
...would think that even a nation with the U.S.'s uncanny taste for inspirational improbability might be fed up with Men of Honor. But that may not be so. There's something refreshing about its utterly unembarrassed embrace of the familiar. The director, George Tillman Jr., either doesn't notice or doesn't give a hoot about the way Scott Marshall Smith's script piles up cliches. He just keeps driving his movie right on through them. What's true of him is true of his actors too. De Niro pitches his performance on the edge of psychopathy, where menace...
...would think that even a nation with the U.S.'s uncanny taste for inspirational improbability might be fed up with "Men of Honor." But that may not be so. There's something refreshing about its utterly unembarrassed embrace of the familiar. The director, George Tillman Jr., either doesn't notice or doesn't give a hoot about the way Scott Marshall Smith's script piles up clichés. He just keeps driving his movie right on through them. What's true of him is true of his actors too. De Niro pitches his performance on the edge of psychopathy...
...Arthur Tillman Merritt, who for 40 years worked in Harvard's music department as professor and chair, died on Sunday in Bedford, Mass...
...produced films with blockbuster potential: Amistad (produced by Debbie Allen and directed by Steven Spielberg) and Beloved (produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Jonathan Demme). And finally, it's a welcome little victory for cinematic wholesomeness. "Some of the black films today are not deep," says filmmaker George Tillman Jr., 28, who wrote and directed Soul Food, basing it on his own family experiences. "There are sex comedies, 'hood films. We're trying to get away from that. I wanted to do something that people could appreciate and remember about family...