TV monitor: Final Grades for the 1999-2000 TV Season
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Top of the Class "The Sopranos" Much as I'd love to dispute the critics who unanimously labeled the show this year's best, I just can't.
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Top of the Class "The Sopranos" Much as I'd love to dispute the critics who unanimously labeled the show this year's best, I just can't.
We know their faces, we remember their lines, we sometimes even know their real-life names. But invariably, we take what they do for granted.
Trisha Yearwood is all about love. At least, so it would seem after listening to her eighth album of all new material, "Real Live Woman." Whether it's love lost, love found, love denied or love ruined, Yearwood's got a song to sing about it. As usual, she isn't wearing her own heart on her sleeve.
Related Links Official Website for "American Psycho"
Quick Cut Movie: "Boy's Don't Cry" Directed by: Kimberly Pierce Starring: Hilary Swank Chloe Sevigny Grade: A
Gran Torino Playing at Trax Wednesday, April 12 at 9 pm Promoting "Two," featuring the new single "Moments with You"
In mining possible story ideas to write about as I debut my television column, I found myself inundated by the same concept over and over again: "The Sopranos." But I'll refrain from writing here about HBO's award-sweeping seriocomic story about family and the mob ties that govern them for two main reasons: every other print magazine has already salivated over the show, and more importantly, I don't get cable here so I haven't seen the majority of its episodes this season. Instead, I'll focus on network television and an overriding theme of the last few weeks: death.
I have to take you to task. Your choices this year for Academy Award nominations have made me almost as scared of you as I am angry.
Related Links Drama Department 1999-2000 Season
Quick Cut Movie: "The Next Best Thing" Directed by: John Schlesinger Featuring: Rupert Everett Madonna Grade: C-
Related Links The New Actors Workshop (taught by Mike Nickols)
Related Links THe Official Website for the 42nd Grammy Awards
1999 was certainly a banner year for film. Movies explored the heart of a disenchanted husband ("American Beauty"), the soul of a misunderstood killer ("The Talented Mr. Ripley"), and, quite literally, the mind of an enigmatic movie star ("Being John Malkovich"). But in "Magnolia," writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson confronts us with an even more hidden frontier: ourselves. Taking a cue from Robert Altman, whose "Short Cuts" saw characters of varying degrees of sympathy intersect in Los Angeles, Anderson's superior ensemble effort captures a frenetic 24-hour period in the lives of roughly one dozen self-centered characters. What Anderson is most interested in is the myriad ways we connect and the hidden effects we have on one another in life.
The 17 hopefuls who stand center stage right now at Culbreth Theatre are auditioning for eight spots (four women and four men) as members of the company of a new Broadway musical.
I was disappointed when, as I exited the cineplex where I just had seen Michael Mann's fluidly constructed "The Insider," the person behind me said to her date, "That movie just lumped two plots together." Obviously, she didn't get it.
There's a reason why Mariah Carey has always given her albums ("Butterfly," "Daydream") the blandest, most uninspired titles imaginable: They contain the blandest, most uninspired songs imaginable. Carey's ninth studio album, "Rainbow," proves no different.
One of year's most anticipated films hits theaters Friday. Michael Mann's "The Insider," starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, provides a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes machinations of a "60 Minutes" exposé of the tobacco industry that never made it on the air. This incendiary film is ruffling some serious feathers: "60 Minutes" executive producer Don Hewitt and chief correspondent Mike Wallace are huffing that "The Insider" portrays them unfairly (Wallace called the movie "such bulls-" in the Sept.
Last night, students, professors and filmmakers alike celebrated the art of artifice as the 12th Annual Virginia Film Festival commenced. In a departure from the more introspective themes of the past, this year's Festival honors "TechnoVision." The selections recognize the many innovations being made in the world of film technology today, while also looking back at the influence of changing technology throughout film history. One of the guests at last night's opening gala, held at the Bayly Art Museum, was Academy Award-winning makeup and visual effects expert Stan Winston, a 1968 University graduate. When asked about his support for the University's Capital Campaign fund-raising drive, Winston said, "One of the reasons I'm here and one of the reasons that I've been involved in the Arts Council is ... so that the fine art and performing arts programs at Virginia could be stronger." Winston said that in the past he could not recommend the university to people eager to follow his career path. "Now I will be able to recommend Virginia because there is so much energy in bringing the arts of this school up to the standard of the rest of the school," he said. Joining Winston last night at the Festival was three-time Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver, who has worked with Winston on her upcoming film "Galaxy Quest" as well as in "Aliens," which is to be shown this weekend at the Festival. "Stan is a good friend and wonderful at what he does," she said in an interview with The Cavalier Daily.
Odd, isn't it? Over half of all marriages end in divorce, but movies that deal with the painful process itself are few and far between. What accounts for this discrepancy?
Last year, in "Six Days, Seven Nights," Harrison Ford's character survived a plane crash. Now, in "Random Hearts," Ford plays Dutch Van Den Broeck, who suffers a far more harrowing catastrophe - he must deal with his wife's demise after her plane goes down.
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