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The Direct Approach
TIMES FILM CRITICOverheated passions. Malicious gossip. Jealousy, betrayal and constant romantic crises. Shakespeare's "Othello" fits so snugly into the social context of a modern American high school that a film that restages the Moor's tragedy among 18-year-olds and...Tags: Jane Austen, Mekhi Phifer, Education, High Schools, Sex
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'A Guy Thing'
![What exactly <I>is </I>"A Guy Thing"? According to the movie bearing this title, which contrary to its claims is neither romantic nor comedic, it means a guy, Paul (Jason Lee), with a head and a will as indomitable as a soft-boiled egg. It means a guy who has committed to marrying a thoroughbred, Karen (Selma Blair), doubtless because her imperiousness and snug preppy coordinates give her the vaguely menacing vibe of a strict schoolteacher. It means a guy who, because he has let one woman lead him around by his nose, breaks free on the night of his bachelor party to sniff around another, a willowy blond in a lei brassiere named Becky (Julia Stiles). It means, in other words, that when faced with a great lei, the guy can't help it.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-01/6266753.jpg "What exactly <I>is </I>"A Guy Thing\"? According to the movie bearing this title, which contrary to its claims is neither romantic nor comedic, it means a guy, Paul (Jason Lee), with a head and a will as indomitable as a soft-boiled egg. It means a guy who has committed to marrying a thoroughbred, Karen (Selma Blair), doubtless because her imperiousness and snug preppy coordinates give her the vaguely menacing vibe of a strict schoolteacher. It means a guy who, because he has let one woman lead him around by his nose, breaks free on the night of his bachelor party to sniff around another, a willowy blond in a lei brassiere named Becky (Julia Stiles). It means, in other words, that when faced with a great lei, the guy can't help it.")
Times Staff WriterWhat exactly is "A Guy Thing"? According to the movie bearing this title, which contrary to its claims is neither romantic nor comedic, it means a guy, Paul (Jason Lee), with a head and a will as indomitable as a soft-boiled egg. It means a guy who has...Tags: James Brolin, Selma Blair, Unions, Career and Workplace, Jason Lee
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Coming this season
September Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star: TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts (David Spade) is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for the role of a "normal" guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Holly Hunter, Celebrities, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Drew Barrymore
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10 Things I Hate About You
TIMES STAFF WRITERWednesday March 31, 1999 Given the current popularity of Shakespeare on the screen and the dominance of young moviegoers at the box office, you'd expect that at least one of his plays would wind up as a high school comedy. But writer Karen...Tags: Heath Ledger, Allison Janney, Education, High Schools, Comedy (genre)
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Hamlet
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 12, 2000 Director Michael Almereyda imagines "Hamlet" taking place in present-day Manhattan with such vigor, insight and originality that the power and immediacy of his film makes Shakespeare accessible in an exciting and provocative...Tags: Electronics, Arts and Culture, Liev Schreiber, Ethan Hawke, Blockbuster
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L'Ennui (Boredom)
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 15, 1999 Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...Tags: Casey Affleck, Craig T. Nelson, Liev Schreiber, Clifton Collins Jr., Bob Hoskins
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'State and Main'
Times Film CriticContradictory as it sounds, Hollywood is the kind of place you have to despair of to truly love. Where else can a director caught in an untruth say, "It's not a lie, it's a gift for fiction," or a producer insist, "I made $11 million last year and I don't...Tags: William H. Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patti LuPone, Contracts, David Paymer
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Save the Last Dance
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday January 12, 2001 When we meet Julia Stiles' Sara in the skillfully made heart-tugger "Save the Last Dance," she's a small-town, 17-year-old ballet student anxiously awaiting her Juilliard audition. Her mother, a busy florist, in rushing to be...Tags: Social Issues, Norman Rockwell, Fredro Starr, Washington (U.S. state), Minority Groups
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'The Prince & Me'
![Once upon a feminist time, stories about princes on white horses were verboten unless the prince looked like Alan Alda and was super-sympathetic to the female orgasm. Times and feminism change, however, and these days, a woman can have an advanced degree and a shining knight as long as she absorbs a few life lessons on the way to her happy ending. Indeed, such is the moral of "The Prince & Me," a blandly diverting, chastely conceived and grammatically challenged fairy tale for our bland, chaste and grammatically challenged age.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-04/12059435.jpg "Once upon a feminist time, stories about princes on white horses were verboten unless the prince looked like Alan Alda and was super-sympathetic to the female orgasm. Times and feminism change, however, and these days, a woman can have an advanced degree and a shining knight as long as she absorbs a few life lessons on the way to her happy ending. Indeed, such is the moral of "The Prince & Me,\" a blandly diverting, chastely conceived and grammatically challenged fairy tale for our bland, chaste and grammatically challenged age.")
Times Staff WriterOnce upon a feminist time, stories about princes on white horses were verboten unless the prince looked like Alan Alda and was super-sympathetic to the female orgasm. Times and feminism change, however, and these days, a woman can have an advanced...Tags: Charles, Prince of Wales, Martha Coolidge, Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, Imperial and Royal Matters, Sex
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'The Bourne Supremacy'
![In the smash-and-grab-you-by-the-throat action flick "The Bourne Supremacy," style is meaning and that meaning is fast, fast, fast. As in the earlier "The Bourne Identity," Matt Damon stars as a former CIA super spy caught in the ultimate pulp-existentialist quandary. Stricken with amnesia, Bourne enters the first film not knowing who he is, only to soon discover he can kill every which way. Now, with Bourne's identity if not memory intact, the question driving the action isn't existential (who am I?) but moral (what did I do?), a surprisingly weighty mystery for a movie intent on blasting our synapses into submission.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-07/13526872.jpg "In the smash-and-grab-you-by-the-throat action flick "The Bourne Supremacy,\" style is meaning and that meaning is fast, fast, fast. As in the earlier \"The Bourne Identity,\" Matt Damon stars as a former CIA super spy caught in the ultimate pulp-existentialist quandary. Stricken with amnesia, Bourne enters the first film not knowing who he is, only to soon discover he can kill every which way. Now, with Bourne's identity if not memory intact, the question driving the action isn't existential (who am I?) but moral (what did I do?), a surprisingly weighty mystery for a movie intent on blasting our synapses into submission.")
Times Staff WriterIn the smash-and-grab-you-by-the-throat action flick "The Bourne Supremacy," style is meaning and that meaning is fast, fast, fast. As in the earlier "The Bourne Identity," Matt Damon stars as a former CIA super spy caught in the ultimate pulp-...Tags: Paul Greengrass, Brian Cox, John Powell, Passenger Cars, Sam Peckinpah
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'Mona Lisa Smile'
![It's not every movie — well, not <I>any </I>other movie that I know of — that can claim to have been inspired by both Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton, the unhappily mirrored images of contemporary femininity. But the girl forever known as Monica and the senator known as Clinton were apparently the inspirations for the appealing period drama "Mona Lisa Smile," about a gaggle of 1950s Wellesley College students and the free soul who tries to ignite the flame of liberation in their collective conscience.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-12/10674240.jpg "It's not every movie — well, not <I>any </I>other movie that I know of — that can claim to have been inspired by both Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton, the unhappily mirrored images of contemporary femininity. But the girl forever known as Monica and the senator known as Clinton were apparently the inspirations for the appealing period drama "Mona Lisa Smile,\" about a gaggle of 1950s Wellesley College students and the free soul who tries to ignite the flame of liberation in their collective conscience.")
Times Staff WriterIt's not every movie — well, not any other movie that I know of — that can claim to have been inspired by both Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton, the unhappily mirrored images of contemporary femininity. But the girl forever known as...Tags: Kirsten Dunst, Celebrities, World War II (1939-1945), Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gertrude Stein
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On a screen near you ...
Tomorrow - The Agronomist: Jonathan Demme, keeping his hand in documentaries and pursuing his fascination with Haiti (previously reflected in a CD compilation of Haitian music), tells the story of the volatile Caribbean nation through the dissident...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Anne Hathaway, Colleges and Universities
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