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Harvard attacker Mickey Cavuoti's low-angle shot past Catamounts goalie Chris McCabe just 5:26 into the first quarter of yesterday's matchup proved to be the game-winner. The goal put the Crimson up, 4-0, en route to a 16-3 blowout of the overmatched Vermont squad at muddy Ohiri Field...
Wisconsin, winner of the Western CollegiateHockey Association's regular season and playofftitle, beat Boston College, 2-1, in the semifinalsto advance to the title game. The Badgers end theseason with 36-9-1 record...
...with a little Frankie and Johnny, a la Professor Longhair." No matter if you don't know about the good professor (the past master of R. and B. keyboard, Crescent City style) or aren't sure about the good doctor either (one of Longhair's foremost disciples, the winner of a 1990 Grammy Award for a duo jazz vocal and a kind of living archive of musical history). Just sit back and watch Dr. John work his way through the likes of C.C. Rider and Pine Top Boogie. You may not be able to play the tunes when the videotape...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...
Last year Garry Marshall directed a brisk, witty movie starring Bette Midler as a lottery winner who chases her elusive ticket through Manhattan. The film, shown daily at Disney-MGM Studios park in Florida, lasts three minutes. Beyond that length Marshall has trouble freshening a familiar theme. But maybe predictability is the point of Pretty Woman, which may be a hit just because it descends to its audience's expectations. This is old-fashioned, assembly- line moviemaking without the old panache. It makes one ask, Can't the Japanese do it better? Couldn't anybody...