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Roger Ebert has taken perhaps a less esteemed path, but has no doubt played an elemental role in the success of some of the greater films of the past few years; his ardent advocacy of City of God, Lost in Translation and Y Tu Mamá También helped elevate what might have been six-figure art-house bombs to veritable box office successes. He often recommends ultra-mainstream spectacles as well, but that is a necessary burden that accompanies the position of head critic at a heavily circulated newspaper. The important point is not that he gave Ella...
...elements gets at least three and a half stars, even if it’s short on the third element (usually plot). Hence, poor Roger spends his days showering praise on dragging, decently acted message movies like Monster and The Insider (and, dare I say, Lost in Translation and Y Tu Mamá También), turning their lack of momentum into a virtue with a line like “this movie is reminiscent of a great novel”–—faint praise, given that I’ve read...
...better? Nothing! Absolutely nothing. What these polls give us is a way of feeling like we’re not alone in our opinions. “Look!” we seem to say, pointing to a new poll on the popularity of Issue X or Personality Y, “I’m not alone! There are others like...
When Ellwood returned to the KSG at the beginning of the 1995-1996 academic year, then-U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, D-N.Y., called his departure from the Clinton administration “a tragedy...
...three Freshmen who were not disbarred by the report of the violation of the Honor System will be included in the new boat. The four men who are now due in quarters are W. H. Burton of New York City, L. M. Smith of Bronxville, N. Y.; H. H. Stillman of New York City; and W. H. Jenkins of Ardmore...