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1999 Stories by Michael Sragow

• Get Real

  published April 29, 1999

  Just as David Cronenberg's 1986 The Fly came off as an organic reaction to a terrible new wasting disease, his new movie crystallizes the... More >>

• Don't It Make That White Hair Gray

  published April 8, 1999

  Steve Martin says he doesn't want audiences to expect the same old Steve Martin whenever he stars in a comedy. But that means one thing when he's... More >>

• Man at the Top

  published April 1, 1999

  Jimmy Cagney brought the same electric physicality to gangsters that he did to song-and-dance men. He gave a bright-eyed mug like his character in... More >>

• TV or Not TV?

  published March 25, 1999

  "I hope it's better than The Truman Show," said the woman in line behind me at the publicized "sneak preview" of EDtv. Afterward, a man in my row... More >>

• East Side Story

  published March 11, 1999

  Immodesty becomes Guy Ritchie, the British writer-director who makes a jovial debut on a Jovian scale in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. In... More >>

• The Shallow End of the Pool

  published March 11, 1999

  The Deep End of the Ocean starts out as a maternal horror movie and ends up as a family therapy session. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the photographer... More >>

• Coal Miner's Son

  published February 18, 1999

  What's entertaining about October Sky is the unlikely but true spectacle of backwater West Virginia teens teaching themselves rocket science in... More >>

• Sermon on the Mount

  published February 4, 1999

  In the 1993 hit Groundhog Day, Bill Murray played a show-biz smartass who grew into a human being. Murray added a core of warmth and romance to... More >>

• The Mild Bunch

  published January 28, 1999

  "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose," Kris Kristofferson sings in his most beguiling song, "Me and Bobby McGee." Stephen... More >>