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Vol XXXIIII No. 71

Thursday, January 27, 2000

  'Girl, Interrupted' delivers it all
By JILLIAN DEPAUL
Scene Movie Critic

When Susanna Kaysen spent a year in a mental institution during the 1960s for attempting suicide, she was diagnosed with a borderline personality. Even after reading "Girl, Interrupted," the memoir Susanna wrote during her time in the infamous McLean Hospital (it's ... [more]


'Play It to the Bone' lacks eye of the tiger
By JOEY LENISKI
Scene Movie Credit

Sports movies rarely concern themselves exclusively with the sport shown on the front of the promotional poster. Invariably the story goes beyond the confines of the gridiron, the squared circle, the diamond or the big green, into the conflicts and struggles ... [more]


A romantic Woody Allen musical?
By JEFFREY Q. IRISH
Scene Movie Critic

Does everyone say "I love you?" Woody Allen thinks so. He wrote, directed and starred in this 1930s style musical about an extended family and its bouts with the most wonderful feeling in the world. "Everyone says" opens with Ed Norton ... [more]