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Scott's 'Gladiator' survives epic battle with mediocrity

By Ben Nuckols | May 20, 2000

Welcome, summer; "Gladiator" is here. The solstice may be a month away yet, but to moviegoers, the season begins when a film arrives brandishing bombast and budget, immediately dwarfing its competition, making us ask what exactly we were spending our money on for the past three months. Brains are a bonus in this sort of endeavor, and "Gladiator" reasonably raised expectations that it would have as many smarts as swords, with a real actor, Russell Crowe, in the lead, and a true visionary, Ridley Scott ("Blade Runner," "Thelma & Louise"), behind the camera. So it is with some disappointment that I bring you the report from inside the arena: "Gladiator" is a summer movie through and through, a bloody but superficial spectacle built on a foundation of dollars, not ideas.

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Bittersweet 'Flowers': a cruel domestic bouquet

By Meg Scheu | April 28, 2000

Rosemary Daniell's "Fatal Flowers" is a memoir that uses the author's personal experiences of growing up in the South to explain the strict and contradicting ideal of a Southern woman. The book is brutally honest, verging on the vulgar and crude, at times leaving the reader blushing with embarrassment, mouth hanging open in shock. Daniell's mother's suicide is the pivotal point around which the story revolves.

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'Real Live': All about real love

By Doug Strassler | April 21, 2000

Trisha Yearwood is all about love. At least, so it would seem after listening to her eighth album of all new material, "Real Live Woman." Whether it's love lost, love found, love denied or love ruined, Yearwood's got a song to sing about it. As usual, she isn't wearing her own heart on her sleeve.

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Colorless filmmaking dulls 'Black and White'

By John Bylander | April 14, 2000

In an era where artists like Eminem, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock have come to exemplify the pervasive influence of hip-hop culture on American white kids, one might think, "What better time to make a movie about white kids immersed in New York's hip-hop scene?" If that movie happens to be "Black and White" by writer/director James Toback, the answer is "never." From the movie's trailers, one gets the impression that the subject is the life of Charlie (Bijou Phillips) and her friends as they interact with some hip-hop heads from Harlem.

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Chumbawamba returns with surprising mixture

By Nick West | April 14, 2000

Since Chumbawamba first broke on to the American music scene in 1997, their ubiquitous one hit wonder, "Tubthumping," earned the band recognition while blurring the line between ska, punk and pop. But while everyone remembers the "I get knocked down, but I get up again" song, most would be hard pressed to identify its creators. It has been three years since Chumbawamba last released a song for public consumption in the U.

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Friedkin exorcises novelty from 'Rules'

By Adam Reno | April 11, 2000

God bless America. And Hollywood, too, while He's at it. A person need not be too perceptive to figure out from what country "Rules of Engagement," directed by William Friedkin ("The French Connection"), originates.

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