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August 26, 2026
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'The Score' steals the show

By Benjamin B. Bolger | July 31, 2001

Despite Robert De Niro's occasional forays into humor, such as "Meet the Parents," "Analyze This" and "We're No Angels," audiences have come to expect commanding performances when De Niro appears in tough underworld crime sagas. "The Score" is De Niro's first movie of the 21st century that delivers truly classic De Niro grit, packaged in a reasonably well-assembled movie. While "The Score" does not challenge the sheer brilliance of his command performances in "Goodfellas," "Casino" and "Heat" -- roles that eclipsed all other works of the 1990s -- his latest work plays to the sensibilities of those previous masterpieces.

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Cake's taste remains unchanged

By Carl Burnett | July 27, 2001

"When we first started playing at the bar down the street it was just hipsters scratching their goatees," Cake singer John McCrea said in a 1998 interview. "We belonged to them, and then we were stolen away by the jocks." To blame for that phenomenon were such hits as "The Distance," "Never There" and the band's deadpan cover of "I Will Survive." There's no denying that Cake's music has a quality that appeals to many different types of people -- and repels an equal number.

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Wainwright's CD lives up to his first

By Carl Burnett | July 23, 2001

"Everything I like's a little bit sweeter, a little bit fatter, a little bit harmful for me," Rufus Wainwright sings in "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk," the outstanding album opener from his sophomore release, "Poses." The song itself is a good example of the kind of guilty pleasures Wainwright sings about, the kind that abound on this complex but catchy neo-folk-pop record. Wainwright is the son of folk legend Loudon Wainwright III, and has therefore found himself in the unenviable position of having to prove himself musically in order to avoid the "easy ticket to fame" stigma that has dogged the likes of Sean Lennon and Jakob Dylan. But prove himself he has.

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'00 artists show bare essentials

By Holly Shaffer | July 17, 2001

Two Dartmouth Class of 2000 graduates -- Brad Siskin and Thomas Beale -- won the Perspectives on Design award, and as a result, their work is being exhibited in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery in the Hopkins Center until July 23. The works of Brad Siskin and Thomas Beale are not at all the same -- Siskin's comments both cynically and profoundly on what we do with our emotions,and Beale's on altered organic forms. But both are wonderful and deserve some interested eyes.

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'Final Fantasy' pushes the boundaries of animation

By John Teti | July 13, 2001

Video-game movies do not enjoy a proud heritage. "Super Mario Bros.," "Mortal Kombat" and the like are, inevitably, unwatchable garbage. The difficulty has been to create a film from a text that has only nominal narrative and character development -- to somehow transfer the essence of the game while removing the most crucial part, interactivity. Square Pictures' "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" is a video-game movie, but that is the only similarity it bears to "Tomb Raider" and the other tripe that populates this subgenre. First, "The Spirits Within" is the first movie to be produced by the same company that made the original video games.

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Radiohead gels in new album

By Carl Burnett | June 27, 2001

In recent interviews, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has implied that the recently released "Amnesiac" and last October's "Kid A" are two quite different records.

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'Swordfish,' Travolta flounder

By Sabrina Peric | June 21, 2001

Fast cars. Terrorists. Explosives strapped onto hostages. Lots of money. Naked women and even a flying bus. No, this is not "Speed," starring heart-throb Keanu Reeves.

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Rustic finds a 'Viva Nueva' with Tommy Boy Records

By Carl Burnett | May 30, 2001

It's 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Eve, 1999, in the Portland, Maine's State Theater. Rustic Overtones singer Dave Gutter, halfway through a long, sweat-drenched set, doesn't bother telling his band to stop the music, but instead starts yelling the obligatory countdown on top of the current, unstoppable beat. "Ten, nine, eight " -- the audience couldn't care less about the upcoming unofficial beginning of the new millennium.

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