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MOST OPERATIC COMPLIMENT "My eyes danced across the pages of your ravishingly splendid story and nearly teared in anticipation of each new twist of phrase. What drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...TALENTED MR. RIPLEY Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) would rather "be a fake somebody than a real nobody." So he pursues a fatal game of pretense in Anthony Minghella's devious twist on the Patricia Highsmith crime novel about patrician indolence and underclass yearning. In a handsome cast, no one can touch Jude Law for golden gorgeousness with an undercoat of sadism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best Cinema of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...make some sort of universal claim that war is pointless. However, Roedel and Holt merely receive injuries and miraculously, find themselves at the Shelley farm. Images of Jewel breast-feeding her child again distract the viewer and destroy whatever dramatic tension remains. In a contrived plot twist, Shelley maneuvers herself into matrimonial bliss with Roedel, and she, her new child and Roedel set off to California as Holt journeys to freedom...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Tobey: Devil Without a Cause | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Andy Warhol wrote a quotable quote. His words appeared free-standing, without explanation, in the catalog for his Oslo exhibition. His comment on fame--that everyone would achieve fleeting notoriety--became famous in its own right. Was this an ironic twist? Or maybe Warhol's point exactly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Everyone Will Be | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...couple on a mission to write a guidebook about the American West who find themselves staying in Lank's so-called hotel. As Eugene Fodor, Jonathan Dinerstein '01 is ideally cast, complimented by first-year Laura Durso in the role of Patricia Fodor. The Fodors add yet another comic twist to the plot and capture every scene in which they appear...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Who Could Ask for Anything More?" A review of "Crazy for You" | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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