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2000 Stories by Bill Gallo

• Ten From 2000

  published December 28, 2000

  The year 2000 was by no means the best of times for moviegoers, but only a curmudgeon would fail to find, say, ten points of light in a darkened... More >>

• Tiny Town Meets Tinseltown

  published December 21, 2000

  Playwright/filmmaker David Mamet has the sharpest gift imaginable for shooting down the sins of American greed, the con games people run to get... More >>

• A Sporting Chance

  published December 14, 2000

  First, the good news. This was the year Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open, the British Open, the PGA and seven other tournaments with the ease of... More >>

• Hank Mobley

  published December 14, 2000

  For more than three decades, Hank Mobley was regarded by the bulk of the jazz-listening public as a journeyman of the hard-bop idiom, one of a... More >>

• Look Out Below

  published December 14, 2000

  The subjects of Mark Singer's extraordinary documentary Dark Days were once the stuff of urban myth -- the homeless "mole people"... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published December 7, 2000

  Popular saxophonist Vic Cionetti, Sunday, December 10, at the Gothic Theatre, officially returns to the Denver jazz scene with his first... More >>

• Mountin' Frustration

  published December 7, 2000

  About halfway through the mega-budget mountain-climbing adventure Vertical Limit, even the most rugged, thrill-hungry disaster-movie... More >>

• Heist Society

  published November 30, 2000

  The grandpere of all jewel-heist movies, Jules Dassin's Rififi hasn't lost a thing since its initial release in 1955. Seeing... More >>

• The Name Game

  published November 23, 2000

  Just a wild surmise, but doesn't it seem to you that in recent weeks Denverites have been far more concerned with the name of their new football... More >>

• No Mickey Mouse Deal

  published November 23, 2000

  The Rockybilt hamburger, a humble object of desire that sent three generations of Denverites into swoons of praise, has long since gone the way of... More >>

• Night Moves

  published November 23, 2000

  You got your Good. You got your Evil. And you got your thirty-year-old multimillionaire moviemaker to explain the difference to you. Look out... More >>

• The Weakness of the Flesh

  published November 23, 2000

  Have you heard? Beauty's only skin deep. Pay attention, now: When it comes to love, experience is the best teacher. And just in case you didn't... More >>

• Family Values

  published November 16, 2000

  The moods of Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count on Me are so artfully mingled that it's difficult to get a fix on this highly personal... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published November 9, 2000

  Consider the beautifully inverted recording career of Patricia Barber. First she establishes herself as an innovative stylist and fearless... More >>

• Body Shop

  published November 9, 2000

  The subject -- or rather, the object -- of Christine Fugate's unsettling and surprisingly poignant documentary The Girl Next Door is... More >>

• Standing Pat

  published November 2, 2000

  You don't have to be a psychoanalyst or a Pentagon code-breaker to understand the threat that Pat Bowlen issued last week. It was the ultimatum of... More >>

• Life in the Pits

  published November 2, 2000

  The soon-to-be-talked-about sen-sations in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream include three or four flashing, near-subliminal... More >>

• Queens for a Day

  published October 26, 2000

  Any moviemaker who ventures into the sewers of New York City corruption will find Sidney Lumet's wet footprints. In classics like The... More >>

• Suffer the Children

  published October 26, 2000

  The stark simplicity of A Time for Drunken Horses, one of the few films that has slipped out of post-revolutionary Iran to the West,... More >>

• Biting the Big Apple

  published October 19, 2000

  Americans don't give a damn if Slobodan Milosevic goes nuts and murders half of Eastern Europe. They don't care if bubonic plague decimates... More >>

• Ballet Bound

  published October 19, 2000

  The setting of Stephen Daldry's uplifting comedy Billy Elliot, about a working-class boy who wants to be a ballet dancer, is a... More >>

• Take 23

  published October 12, 2000

  The 23rd Denver International Film Festival leaves the gate Thursday with an opening-night screening at the Buell Theatre of David Mamet's... More >>

• Sonny Stitt

  published October 12, 2000

  Producer Joel Dorn, who founded the superb revival label 32 Jazz, is giving jazz collectors two more shots of the real thing (and the rare thing)... More >>

• Ladies' Day

  published September 28, 2000

  Behold the ancient rituals of autumn. The sting of just-rubbed wintergreen oil catches in the nostrils. Two tall quarterbacks kneel facing each... More >>

• Bye, Bye Brazil

  published September 21, 2000

  Some may find reason to embrace the romantic comedy Woman on Top as the nonsensical, sweet-tempered fantasy of two South American... More >>