Word: film
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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LISTEN UP: THE LIVES OF QUINCY JONES. Who is this guy with the omnipresent name? There are now three chances to find out: an audacious documentary directed by Ellen Weissbrod, currently in theatrical release (Warner Bros.); a book, which expands with razzle-dazzle graphics the biographical contents of the film; and a CD (Qwest/Reprise), packaged with the book, which represents the first-ever compilation of Jones' polymorphous music, ranging from jazz to soul, pop to funk, performed by talents as various as Sarah Vaughan and James Ingram. The movie, the book and the CD, all produced and coordinated by Courtney...
Verhoeven zips through his tangled story with all the brio of Brecht on a sunny day; his style is comic, ironic, daringly distanced. The girlhood scenes are played for easygoing farce and shot in black and white. Then the film bursts into snapshot color when Sonja falls in love with her teacher (Robert Giggenbach). Her hometown's streets and churches are stylized back projections. The Nasty Girl moves like an eccentric dancer, ever shifting its pace and mood, never losing its poise...
Lena Stolze made her film debut nine years ago as a student opposing Hitler in Verhoeven's The White Rose. As Sonja she is greatly winning, and the film bathes in her saucy radiance. She whistles when Sonja is happy, and when the crusade finally turns her way, she can't repress an exuberant yodel. Sonja wants to be Joan of Arc, but she's really Nancy Drew, doggedly sleuthing until she cracks a dark mystery. She can tolerate everything -- the aged Reichmongers cloaked in propriety, the goons who threaten her children -- everything but acceptance. When the town finally acknowledges...
Nonetheless, most people approach the idea with a bit of nervousness. Joe, a lawyer, and Tara, a financial analyst (the names in this story have been changed), had been married a few months and were watching an adult film at their New York City apartment, when Tara kiddingly suggested, "Why don't we make our own?" Two months later, after consultation with a therapist, the pair re-created their wedding night on camera. Joe wore his tuxedo, Tara her bridal gown -- at least initially...
...happened, more people than the usual unending queues of demoralized shoppers took to the streets last week -- from Ukrainian-independen ce campaigners in Kiev to a procession behind a Russian Orthodox priest blessing Moscow's new commodities exchange, to U.S. film star and fitness diva Jane Fonda leading a troop of Soviet women on an athletic loop around the Kremlin. Yet as loudspeakers blared "Hoorah, hoorah!" for Fonda outside the old czarist citadel, inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure...