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Starring Richard Gere
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For the Leeman family, competitively driving
their daughter to win the Sarah Rose Miss Teen
Princess American pageant is an obsession; a
stop-at-nothing compulsion in the name of
small town wholesomeness and good old tradi
tion. But appearances can be deceiving. Drop
Dead Gorgeous unmasks the hypocrisy of
Mount Rose, Minn, in a way only a thoroughly
desensitized film-goer could appreciate.
This film could be best summarized in one
statement: There’s Something About Mary
meets the Texas cheerleader mom. WitJi this ba
sic theme of obsessive parenting and raunchy
humor Drop Dead Gorgeous is sure to offend
someone. Its dark humor satirizes just about
everything from anorexia and mental retarda
tion to deafness and violent death.
Kirsten Dunst does a fabulous job alongside
her co-star Kirstie Alley, who gives a hilariously
plausible performance with her take on a win-
all, take-all mom.
This film takes a clever twist with its use of
documentary style film-making. It seems to put
the pageant all into perspective by adding to the
hilarious innuendo and the theme of beauty
pageants lacking seriousness, professionalism,
and sincerity.
Overall, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a mildly fun
ny and inventive allegory of small-towh Ameri
ca and despite its morbid and mildly offensive
sense of humor is still rather entertaining.
(Grade: B-)
It is no surprise that with the success of Gary
Marshall’s Pretty Woman, Richard Gere and Ju
lia Roberts have returned for one of the most
anticipated love stories since the early 90’s
adaptation of My Fair Lady.
With a fabulous supporting cast, wonderful
plot and one of the most compatible duos to
date, the The Runaway Bride is a winner.
For fans of Pretty Woman, reliving many of
the scenarios, including one ambiguously simi
lar to the famous Rodeo Drive shopping spree,
will strike a chord of familiarity.
Contrasting New York City with small town
Maryland, The Runaway Bride cleverly captures
the essence of both ways of life as big city jour
nalist Ike Graham (Gere) writes a story about a
small town legend, the runaway bride. Howev
er, he gets more than he wanted as he learns
more about the woman he once sought to slan
der. To defend his actions and save his job, he
travels to the small eastern town to unmask
what soon turns into the love of his life.
Aside from being a typical love story, this
film is full of foreshadowing and irony complete
with a soundtrack including “Maneater” and
U2’s hit “I Still Haven't Found What I’m Look
ing For.” It also possesses some rather interest
ing situations of introspection, rejection and ro\e
reversal.
Overall, The Runaway Bride is predictable
but still proves to be a great summer romance.
(Grade: A-)
Playing at Hollywood clans: Back
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greatest animated movies evermai aimed at chi
With Disney’s chokehold on the sa|s the Am
tion industry and the lack of subsi diatrics’ ad
m them. The Iron Gmnt is a skip.: youngsters t
to the traditional kid fare sing-alor, unrealistic fc
Disney cranks out year after year. : b’s a hui
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most important of all, it doesn'tca;, bitsy
to children. It is easily the best hr which a/sfi it
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giant metal monster. Jjheii so'cr i.
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hot for very long and soon theboyd e ily said ii^i
giant are on the run.
With strong undertones dealm^w
peace, the nuclear scare, the sods®.
mg your own destiny, The IronGir™
against all principles of modernan::.
features and is a classic in the mate;
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(Grade: A +)
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Long-lost J.S. Bach compositions discover
BOSTON (AP) — More than 50 years after it
was lost in the chaos of World War II, a trove
of music written by Johann
Sebastian Bach has been dis-
covered in Ukraine.
The music, part of the
missing archives of the
Berlin Sing-Akademie, a
still-performing group estab
lished in 1791, was found in
Kiev after a 20-year search
by a Harvard music profes
sor.
“It was believed lost.
There was absolutely no
trace of it for well over 50
years,” Christoph Wolff,
dean of the Graduate School
“It was believed lost.
There was absolutely
no trace of it for well
over 50 years”
of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday.
“For a long time, we Bach scholars were led
to believe that the material was destroyed.”
Wolff said the Germans took the Sing-
Akademie archive from
Berlin in 1943 to protect it
from the destruction of war.
When hostilities ended in
1945, it fell into Soviet
hands.
Wolff spent the past two
decades tracking various
leads, but his real break
came in April when another
Harvard researcher found a
Russian document from the
post-war years “that de
scribed the existence of
5,000-plus music manu
scripts in Kiev.”
— Christoph Wolff
Dean of Arts and Sciences,
Berlin Sing-Akademie
It wasn’t until June that Wolff located the
archive, cut through significant red tape and
■ WRIGHTS
(AP) — On 1
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Jackson.
Jackson,
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spent three days rooting through the c o ast G'
at Ukraine’s Central State Archive. aTter he c)r ] <:
“This is really adding a significant® tw0 s
mension to the study of ISth-centwWr,
he said. ll hepalr '
The compositions were found a:’ swam c
5,000 or so documents in mo Sr : u
archives as part of the musical eat:: I 0 ® 1 ® V(:t ' u
Phillipp Emanuel Bach, one of Be: 7;' L ° ast
himself a well-known composer. 0 y
The archive also holds works by) £ 1e1a,lin ‘
Bach's 19 other children, as well as a:
other 18th and early 19th-century Gen::'
posers.
It also has letters written bypoeiii|
Wolfgang von Goethe.
Wolff said he hopes the works mays#|
be returned to Germany.
No decisions have been madeaboui®|
uments’ future.
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