Film treats audience to romantic "trick"
By Doug Strassler | September 10, 1999Whoever decided to cast Tori Spelling as a lousy actress was either incredibly inspired or really lazy.
Whoever decided to cast Tori Spelling as a lousy actress was either incredibly inspired or really lazy.
Drums thump. Guitars strum. The glistening beat could be a lifeline to Cuba, pumping hot blood laced with rum.
"I am disturbed... I am in love... I am NOT satisfied... I am accident prone... I am an alcoholic": These and other bold statements can be found on flyers all over Grounds, advertising the Spectrum Theatre's latest project.
It's out there somewhere, the newest in a long line of how-to manuals: "Summer Action Movies for Dummies." Rest assured, it exists, and it's undoubtedly sitting on the bedside table of somebody at Warner Bros.
Remember when you first learned the concepts of space and time? It all seemed so incomprehensible and yet wonderfully fascinating.
Maybe more people would trust this country's legal system if Supreme Court justices felt free to say things like, "Look at me sir, do I have `stupid' written across my forehead?" People who haven't been near a television at noon for the last few years may not recognize that quote, but Judge Judith Scheindlin's candid and brazen words are becoming familiar to a growing audience of viewers. Over the past few years, daytime television has undergone a major transformation.
From their habits, you'd think that rock radio stations are desperate to combat the rap influx into popular music.
For fourth-year University student Meghan Rand, photography not only serves as a form of artistic expression, but also as a way of documenting history and change.
When Trent Reznor landed a Grammy for his work on the EP "Broken," it was the beginning of a rise in popularity for industrial music artists.
He's ba-aaaaaack. Only this time, he's grown up. Well, okay, just a little bit. He is Adam Sandler, whose bag of man-child schtick has turned him into one of Hollywood's $20 million-men, emerging in his fifth leading role in "Big Daddy." Not surprisingly, there is not a whole lot of ingenuity to be found here, but Sandler fans should nonetheless walk away feeling satisfied.
Balancing artistic pizzazz and audience appeal is a tough trick to turn, one the filmmakers of "The Matrix" came closer to than most movies in recent years.
It was about this time last year when "There's Something About Mary," an irreverently hyperbolic comedy, turned Hollywood on its head with its vast array of gross-outs and genre spoofs.
The heading of Arts and Entertainment can be applied to a large number of activities at the University, but the excitement of having a close to limitless source of subjects is tempered by one small fact.
"Fred Durst. The man. The myth. The compulsive masterpiece. You love him. You hate him. You love to hate him." In this joking elegy excerpted from "Outro," the Limp Bizkit frontman successfully captures the essence that exists behind his image and music. Limp Bizkit gained notoriety with their hard-hitting debut album, "Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$." Coupled with appearances on Ozzfest and Korn's Family Values Tour, Bizkit exploded onto the Hard Rock scene with an intensity to match its music. The group's second album, "Significant Other," marks a notable departure from the style that won the band sudden fame.