Word: screening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...seems surly and bratty, and where the part calls for tortuous introspection, Hawke settles into a lifeless, gravelly monotone. For the most part, Hawke doesn't seem to know the implications of what he's saying. Accordingly, little chemistry develops with Ophelia because Stiles spends much of her screen time pouting and skulking. The only discernable reason that the two are a match for one another is because they are equally petulant. Hamlet does not represent "the courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye," just a spoiled latch-key kid whose parents didn't hug him enough. Thankfully...
...Chicago apartment, watching basketball with his male grad students. The deeply Athenophilic Ravelstein is surrounded by eager, virile, attractive young men-"Ravelstein's young men." Bellow writes, "At his basketball parties, Ravelstein passed pizza slices among his graduate student guests, his bald head swiveling toward the busy, colored TV screen behind him. His lot, his crew, his disciples, his clones, who dressed as he did, smoked the same Marlboros and found in these entertainments a common ground between the fan clubs of childhood and the Promised Land of the intellect toward which Ravelstein, their Moses and their Socrates, led them...
...thought they had been around forever. XV Beacon in Boston, for example, opened for New Year's 2000, yet because it is nestled among the cobblestones and brick Federal architecture of Beacon Hill, it would never occur to you before entering that each of its bathrooms sports a flat-screen Bloomberg News display. The 61-room hotel's only exterior signature is its gold nameplate: xv beacon. By contrast, the Soniat House in New Orleans is draped in its history: it was created from adjoining Creole town houses that date back to the early 19th century. Houston's Colombe...
...movies usually means a video rental. Noisy babies are not the most welcome seat fillers at most movie houses, and families are often asked to leave at the first wail. But a growing number of theaters are accommodating parents who want a first-run film experience complete with big screen, Dolby sound and children. The Sonoma Cinemas chain has created soundproof glass rooms in the back of theaters for families. And the independent Parkway Theater in Oakland, Calif., is credited with the creation of "cry nights," special showings at which the audience is made up only of parents and infants...
...insult to Drew Carey to note that he can't exactly sing or act. Indeed, that's his appeal. You gotta love the lunky guy, bluffing his way through this new musical version of Pinocchio and acting as if he owns the screen. Surround him with actual singers and actors and require him to emote, and our generosity is tested. But Carey is bolstered by a jovially hammy production, with music composed by Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas). It's testimony to modern adults' pop-psych self-absorption that Disney has recast the story around the puppetmaker dad's parenting issues...