| Vol XXXIII No. 109 |
Thursday, March 30, 2000 |
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Teen romance `Earth' hits the right notes
By LAURA PETELLE
Scene Writer
 When a wealthy boarding-school boy meets a small-town girl on the big screen, what can viewers expect but a wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance? Add a fiery collision, a pre-existing small-town boyfriend, a judge with creative sentencing powers and a medical condition, and you ... [more]
Spielberg confronts issues of race in `The Color Purple'
By JOHN CRAWFORD
Scene Movie Critic
Steven Spielberg had doubts when Quincy Jones first approached him to direct a film based on Alice Walker's novel "The Color People." Spielberg, after all, was the director of popcorn movies like "Jaws" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark," not serious, ... [more]
Ending of `Gate' leaves its audience behind
By MATT NANIA
Assistant Scene Editor
When one looks at the early career of director Roman Polanski, they are likely to be struck with awe. This is, after all, the man who gave us two of cinema's classics: "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown." In later years, though, his ... [more]
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