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...runs right past an adult's expectations for animation. We usually hope not to get too restless as we indulge the kids in their cinematic treats. But this pretty, fractured fairy tale offers us real wit--including some nice, satirical hits on the Disney tradition--while still giving the wee ones plenty of broad, silly...
...MOULIN ROUGE When they write the definitive history of eye candy, Baz Lurhmann's pinwheeling, voluptuous movie should get its own chapter. Art director Catherine Martin reimagined the famous Montmartre nightclub as something like Pee-wee's Playhouse in Gotham City, stuffed to bursting with bright ideas and dark corners. The inspirations came from everywhere--fashion photography, the technicolor "Paris" of old Hollywood, the Bhagavad Gita. Plus there's a boudoir-in-an-elephant...
...Moulin Rouge When they write the definitive history of eye candy, Baz Lurhmann's pinwheeling, voluptuous movie should get its own chapter. Art director Catherine Martin reimagined the famous Montmartre nightclub as something like Pee-wee's Playhouse in Gotham City, stuffed to bursting with bright ideas and dark corners. The inspirations came from everywhere - fashion photography, the technicolor "Paris" of old Hollywood, the Bhagavad Gita. Plus there's a boudoir-in-an-elephant...
...Wednesday night—the night that the What? closed out—Pat was in for double misery. Not only did he have to deal with “asshole” Crimson editors and their inability to get the paper out before the wee hours of the morning, but he also had the “fuckin’ albatross around his neck” (one of his choicest descriptions of the Mag) which guaranteed that he wouldn’t leave the building until dawn. I remember standing on the filthy and entirely precarious landing...
...played briefly for Toledo of the then major American Association in 1884, blacks were subsequently barred from playing big-league ball for the next 63 years. Branch Rickey, the most eloquent of baseball men, brought Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Rickey and the Dodgers' captain, Pee Wee Reese, lent magnificent support to Robinson, the pioneer. Others did not. Several Dodgers demanded to be traded, rather than play on a fine team beside a black...