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AUTHOR: MUSIC AND LYRICS BY PETE TOWNSHEND; BOOK BY PETE TOWNSHEND AND DES MCANUFF...
Maybe. All sporting contests before they are played contain an element that Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril calls "glorious uncertainty." Anything can happen, as Carril's teams have proved season after remarkable season against superior opposition. But not this superior. "This is not a great team," says Carril. "This is the greatest team ever." Don Nelson, the + shrewd and artful coach of the Golden State Warriors, whose son Donn is helping to coach Marciulionis and the Lithuanians, agrees. "The once-in-a- lifetime game is not going to happen," he says. "The Dream Team will not allow any second shots...
...fairy tale, its outer narrative based on spells and enchantments, ordeals and rescues, its inner narrative an evocation of growing up and facing down the everyday demons of adult life. Unlike the bizarre Ken Russell film, the narrative reshaped for La Jolla by McAnuff and composer- lyricist Pete Townshend has an essential innocence, maybe even an excess of optimism. The title character, apparently deaf and blind from boyhood, is in fact rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World War II airman, had been...
UNLAWFUL ENTRY is a movie just waiting to be denounced by some presidential candidate. It's not completely anticop, but a desperate pol could read it that way. Rogue Los Angeles bluecoat Pete Davis (Ray Liotta) has some very weird ideas about protecting and serving Michael and Karen Carr (Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe). He comes to investigate a burglary at their house and stays to hit on her and harass him, after Michael sees through his bulletproof vest of politesse to the psychopath beneath. Liotta's chilly boyishness is hypnotic. Jonathan Kaplan's film is a little distant...
...controller's office in Sacramento sent out the first 12,000 of the IOUs, euphemistically labeled registered warrants, after the Democratic-led state assembly failed to reach agreement with Republican Governor Pete Wilson on how to erase a $10.7 billion shortfall in the latest state budget. Most of the IOUS were for income tax refunds, but within days the state will begin using the warrants to pay 34,000 part-time employees. Most major banks are honoring the notes for now, but they make no long-term promises. The budget impasse has left thousands of state workers wondering whether...