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If idlotfy, ChuXcL T>envelopment: £r 'OiwerryiXy, London* InCenntboCpy Find out more at... Tdcxsy FrCdvCiy, OcX7ohiz+~ 11, 2002 MSC Hailwcivy ouwclv f^xx^rcroryis 10:00ciwns-2:00pvw I rtfxyn oxccC Cowcc-V wCXfhv t>IS 'Repr-&yevrvtttXXA/ev 3:30-4-:30 Gr\/'R.ixvdLcLevt' fttFOO- (KRT) - With moms like Michelle Pfeiffer, who needs enemies? White Oleander is the latest movie in which Pfeiffer plays a pinched, brittle character who is toxic to the people around her. As Ingrid, who commits murder and dooms her teen-age daughter to a life in foster homes, Pfeiffer is excellent - tough and sarcastic. But she might want to rethink her attraction to this sort of wan, Intimate Human Drama With a Message, lest audiences forget the wit and pleasure she brought to earlier roles in Batman Returns and Married to the Mob. She is in danger of becom ing tastefully gray. Her newest shade of gray is pitched at fans of the Oprah novel on which it's based. White Oleander brings no new insight to Janet Fitch's book about how a tow-headed young woman named Astrid (Alison Lehman), bandied from one mother figure to the next (Pfeiffer, Renee Zellweger, Robin Wright Penn - it's the blond leading the blond, and the too-skinny leading the too-skinny), learns something from each until she's more empowered than any of them could be on her own. Fans of the novel will miss the stuff that's been trimmed, especially the non-blond charac ter of an African-American mother figure who opens up our heroine to her sexuality, a key aspect of Astrid that the movie ignores. Most of the darker parts of the book have been brightened up, making the movie feel shallow. Interesting themes are still here - PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROTHa Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Ingrid, a brilliant poet® cerated for killing her lover, in White Oleander. beginning with the idea of the damageasefe woman can inflict if she becomes a mothei- but the movie provides a sunnier, blandetpit ture of Astrid and everyone in her orbit.Ttiafs especially true of her mom who, as playedbvi carefully made-up Pfeiffer, languishes in jail but, somehow, never misses a step in her beauty regimen. White Oleander Directed by: Peter Kosminsky Starring: Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer Rated: PC-13, for strong language andsexiii themes Should you go? If you already love the bool this is a competent, intelligent re-telling. Sponsored by: Study Abroad Program Office 1st Floor—Blxrolf Hall West—84 S-054 4 Http.V/studyabroad tamu.edu Oscar-winning film-maker dies WASHINGTON (AP) - Oscar- winning documentary filmmak er Charles Guggenheim died Wednesday of pancreatic can cer. He was 78. Of the dozens of films Guggenheim produced and directed, one of the most memorable and effective was a biography of Robert F. Kennedy made shortly after the presidential candidate's assassination in 1968. After RFK Remembered was PEOPLE IN THE NEWS shown at that year's Democratic National Convention in Chicago, emo tional delegates marched around the hall and sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." In 1969, RFK Remembered won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Subject. Guggenheim won his first Academy Award in 1964 for pro ducing and directing Nine from Little Rock, about the integration of Arkansas schools. He also received Oscars for The Johnstown Flood (1989), which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Pennsylvania disaster, andd Time for Justice (1994), a histe of the civil rights movement Overall, he was nominatedfor 12 Oscars. The libraries of Presidents Truman, Kennedy and Johnsc - all feature film biographiespre- duced by Guggenheim. He also produced campaign films for Adlai Stevenson,John Robert and Edward Kennedy and George McGovern. In 2000, Guggenheim receNK the Career Achievement Awar: from the International Documentary Association. Key Tools N Mo Everything in the Store 20% Off