'Failure To Launch' Never Gets Off The Ground
BY DIANA SANDERS
     Boy meets girl. In the world of Hollywood, the concept is almost a default for movie making, so what happens before, during and after 'boy meets girl', it is hoped, makes the film. Moviegoers willing to devote a night out after a stressful day at work and the price of admission to yet another ro
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'Inside Man' Is Suspenseful Crime Drama
BY ROSE WHITNEY
     Atypical of several of director Spike Lee's prior films which characteristically addressed the social and political issue of race relations, "Inside Man" focuses instead on the more mundane topics of bank robbery and hostage taking. However, this is definitely not the average bank robbery-surprise
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'Life Gave Me Many Lessons' Describes Author's Losses
Life Gave Me Many Lessons, Maria Papougenis, 60 pp., paperback; Orkos Press, 2005; ISBN 1-59232-903-9; $10.
BY LINDA J. WILSON
     The generation called "baby boomers" long since ceased to think of themselves as babies. Boomers now constitute a "sandwich" generation. Their parents are in the later decades of their lives and their children are graduating from high school and college and reaching adulthood. The older and the youn
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