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Looking at the facts, one could only agree with Mussina’s assessment. An unlikely villain, Everett entered his ninth inning at-bat 1-for-9 lifetime against Mussina and had struck out seven of those nine times...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Mussina Proves That Nobody's Perfect | 9/4/2001 | See Source »

...decade later, we make do with Chandra Levy/Gary Condit - not a bad production, with elements of Sex in the City fused to the Perils of Pauline. The villain looks like Jack Lord playing Skeletor. The mystery of Chandra's disappearance, once good for voluble dinner table speculation, is getting a little threadbare for want of developments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hefner Effect and Serious Journalism | 8/30/2001 | See Source »

...alter Shakespeare’s plays in order distinguish their piece as an original production, failing to ground their revisions in the original text. McGee commits the error in creating a series of textually baseless flashbacks in the mind of the Friar, who McGee portrays as the ultimate villain; though the sequences are well executed, they only confuse the audience and detract from the show...

Author: By Jeremy W. Blocker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revamped ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Offers Memorable Shakespeare Experience | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...Hindi movies are the very embodiment of cheese, with rambling storylines, one-dimensional characters, and melodramatic monologues that stretch into oblivion. Each new Hindi movie is simply a variation of a previous Hindi movie, with a few modifications. (For example, villain with mustache becomes villain without mustache.) The repetition is so blatant that there is a popular email circulating at work concerning the “rules” that all Hindi movies must abide by. Some of the more entertaining ones...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: POSTCARD FROM BANGALORE, INDIA: Let the Dancing Begin | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...movie. Everybody wants to see Li in action. So watch him defeat bad guys with the tools of domesticity: a mop, a bale of laundry and (ouch) an iron. Gasp as he kicks a billiard ball out of an end pocket, then swats it, cricket-bat-style, into a villain's cranium. See him use a desk drawer as a truncheon. He sneaks past a sentry's guardhouse outside the evil inspecteur's police station and, just to show he can, he rams his foot through his guardhouse door, neatly kicking the sentry in the groin. Inside, he chances upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jet-ting to Paris? Oui! | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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