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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS That most agreeable of actors, Will Smith, keeps (as they say) "stretching." The question posed by The Pursuit of Happyness (the bad spelling is part of the story) is whether he's eventually going to bend himself completely out of shape. You have to wonder if...
Gardner is based on a real character, a bright and ambitious young man who had everything required to succeed--except the right skin color. Do we believe he will triumph? Of course we do; they don't make major motion pictures about uninstructive failures. Do we care about Gardner and...
BLOOD DIAMOND When a Hollywood star sports a foreign accent for one of his characters, viewers are tempted to say, Stop trying to hide; we know it's you. But Leonardo DiCaprio is such a resourceful actor, and such a magnetic movie presence, that he can persuasively slip into the...
Al Gore would love her. But, dammit, so do we. It's lovely to see her preserving her vision for her books against commercial compromise, even more warming to see her fight for love and for keeping her beloved Lake District landscape a green and pleasant place. The director, Chris...
Both Smiley and Colbert have their own late-night TV shows, but “The Tavis Smiley Show,” which airs on PBS (WGBH/Channels 2 and 44 locally), bears little resemblance to Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” Smiley...