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1999 Stories by Bill Gallo

• A Sporting Chance

  published December 30, 1999

  All right, then. Just how long has it been since your Denver Broncos rose from the slough of despond to win a pair of Super Bowls? A... More >>

• Reeling in the Year

  published December 30, 1999

  In Albert Brooks's summer comedy The Muse, a ravishing daughter of Zeus... More >>

• Daniel Barenboim and Guests

  published December 23, 1999

  The Buenos Aires-born pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has assembled a formidable array of talent for this elaborate bow to the art of Duke... More >>

• Good Grief!

  published December 23, 1999

  At first glance, Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother seems uncharacteristically grim for a filmmaker with such a demonic... More >>

• Party at Ground Zero

  published December 23, 1999

  Millennial hysteria takes many forms. Some people fall prey to a travel agent and book a cruise to the Aegean, bent on passing New Century's Eve... More >>

• Baja Humbug

  published December 16, 1999

  Once upon a time, the dimly lit Punchbowl, at 20th and Stout streets, was a perfectly good place to get an honest glass of whiskey, tell... More >>

• Wynton Marsalis

  published December 9, 1999

  If evidence of eighteenth-century jazz is unearthed in, say, the 21st century, Wynton Marsalis is likely the man who will play it and talk it up.... More >>

• Anywhere but There

  published December 9, 1999

  The heroines of Gavin O'Connor's offbeat road movie Tumbleweeds are a struggling single mother named Mary Jo Walker (Janet McTeer)... More >>

• Case Cloved

  published December 2, 1999

  Half a block away, you catch the scent of garlic on the wind, powerful and ancient. Good news. There will be no duck on the pizza tonight, and no... More >>

• The National Free-for-All League

  published November 25, 1999

  Kurt Warner may not know it, but Some Things Never Change. With six weeks left in the National Football League season, the perennially miserable... More >>

• Moments of Glory

  published November 18, 1999

  As midnight draws near for the decade, the century and the millennium, humankind's most powerful, most undeniable impulse is to make lists. By... More >>

• Keith Jarrett

  published November 18, 1999

  The jazz musician who doesn't improvise is the chef who doesn't cook, the writer who lays down his pen, the ballplayer on the bench. Nonetheless,... More >>

• Grand Illusion

  published November 18, 1999

  The world's demand for minimally talented thirty-year-old high-school dropouts who believe they're great poets or great musicians or great movie... More >>

• Join the Club

  published November 11, 1999

  The sleek young cigar smoker wearing the Brooks Brothers suit and $300 cap-toe loafers wants to shuffle-bowl. He hasn't done this since he was ten... More >>

• Lying Down on the Job

  published November 11, 1999

  The mutant children of Dr. Hannibal Lecter and his star pupil, agent Clarice Starling, remain doggedly at large in moviedom. There's no serial... More >>

• For Whom the Bell Toils

  published November 4, 1999

  Buddy Bell had been in town all of five minutes when he started talking in riddles. "The situation here can be as perfect as a situation can be,"... More >>

• The Littlest Victim

  published November 4, 1999

  Actor Frank Whaley has appeared in more than thirty movies, including Swimming With Sharks and Pulp Fiction. But none of them cuts... More >>

• A Crying Shame

  published October 28, 1999

  All hail. America is the seat of democracy and the world's most mobile society -- the place where a printer's apprentice named Samuel Clemens... More >>

• Shuck and High Five

  published October 7, 1999

  For the last month or so, I've been shucking littlenecks from the supermarket, splashing them with a little Tabasco and eating dinner in front of... More >>

• Twenty-two Skidoo

  published October 7, 1999

  The twenty-second Denver International Film Festival opens this week with a showing of Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts at the Buell Theatre.... More >>

• Hail, Mary

  published October 7, 1999

  Jesus, Mary and Joseph! The repressed Irish-Catholic schoolgirl Molly Shannon plays on Saturday Night Live is certainly not everyone's cup... More >>

• The Puck Stops Here

  published September 30, 1999

  The premise is preposterous, the final score inevitable and the record reading on the feelgood-o-meter totally predictable. But Mystery,... More >>

• Loserville?

  published September 23, 1999

  Dressed head to foot in orange and blue, the crazies stood and howled in the Denver night, their raucous cry of joy mingled with blood lust. Their... More >>

• The Way We Live Now

  published September 23, 1999

  Grownups, take heart. Even if you misspent your summer at the movies pigging out on reheated space adventure, slob humor and stubborn old... More >>

• The Sweet Smell of Success

  published September 23, 1999

  Trust Allison Anders and her old running mate Kurt Voss to come up with a piquant, carefully observed movie about tarnished hope, overfed vanity... More >>