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2002 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• End of the Road

  published December 12, 2002

  Notes from a network executive's forthcoming biography, pilfered from the desk of an editor at a major publishing house. This was hard to read, as... More >>

• How J.Lo Can You Go?

  published December 12, 2002

  Maid in Manhattan, in which Jennifer Lopez goes from pauper to princess, comes not from a screenplay, but from a handful of... More >>

• What Was Going On

  published November 21, 2002

  The tragedy is that even those who should have known better didn't know at all. How could they? The people whose names they sought weren't listed;... More >>

• Run, Rabbit

  published November 7, 2002

  Three years on, the besieged phenomenon (the scourge, the Antichrist, the Vanilla Ice of the '90s -- take your pick) has been rendered beloved.... More >>

• Rye Commentary

  published September 19, 2002

  Among the more preposterous rumors spread by Harry Knowles (whose Ain't It Cool News movie-biz-gossip Web site garners undue attention from... More >>

• Fallon Fast

  published August 22, 2002

  Things you will learn from a forthcoming oral history of Saturday Night Live: Dan Aykroyd slept with, among others, Gilda Radner, Laraine... More >>

• Say Cheese

  published August 15, 2002

  Robert Evans wrote his autobiography in 1994 out of desperation as much as hubris. It cried, "Damn it, look at me...please?" He'd produced one... More >>

• Do the Math

  published August 8, 2002

  A press pass, reporter-turned-novelist Gregory McDonald once said, is good for one thing: It allows the journalist to ask very smart people... More >>

• Signs of Faith

  published August 1, 2002

  This time around, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan puts the surprise at the beginning of his film, and it's a subtle, shimmering clue -- one... More >>

• After M*A*S*H

  published July 18, 2002

  At this very moment, members of the Television Critics Association are gathered at the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, California, to preview this... More >>

• Fight Club

  published July 11, 2002

  A pal asked last week, "Who you writing about?" Told him, "Art Linson," which screwed his face into a big ol' question mark. "He's a movie... More >>

• Ice Ice Maybe

  published July 4, 2002

  They stream in and out, all day and all night, one after the other: band members, producers, business associates, friends, family, strangers,... More >>

• Duh Press

  published June 20, 2002

  Shouldn't have said yes, couldn't say no. The deal was simple, and those who chose to accept it had made their own private pact with the... More >>

• Mixed Report

  published June 20, 2002

  Steven Spielberg just might turn into a great director -- if only he'd stop sabotaging his movies. For the second time in as many films, he... More >>

• Smoking Rock

  published June 6, 2002

  So this is what it's come to: another week, another terrorist-with-a-suitcase-nuke movie. Last Friday, it was up to Ben Affleck to save the world... More >>

• Dr. Strange

  published May 30, 2002

  When this column began at the beginning of 2000, readers and editors scoffed at its occasional subject matter, the comic book. Kids' stuff,... More >>

• Hugh Fidelity

  published May 16, 2002

  It's appropriate that Universal would debut About a Boy against the latest installment in the George Lucas juggernaut. Certainly... More >>

• The Pitch

  published March 28, 2002

  Before he died of congestive heart failure in March 1992, Richard Brooks, director of The Blackboard Jungle and In Cold Blood, used... More >>

• Bang to Hype

  published March 28, 2002

  For many of the performers who shlep down to Austin for the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival each year in search of that elusive... More >>

• Slight Club

  published March 28, 2002

  With Panic Room, about the night Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her teenage daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) are home-invaded by a... More >>

• Lipstick Traces

  published March 14, 2002

  Kissing Jessica Stein ends several times -- a likely explanation of why a film with so short a running time, 94 minutes, feels as... More >>

• Deep Freeze

  published March 14, 2002

  Ice Age poses a heretofore unfathomable question: Is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions?... More >>

• Hell on Earth

  published February 28, 2002

  If We Were Soldiers smells at all familiar, perhaps you're confusing it with the stench emanating from a nearby theater screening... More >>

• Net Loss

  published February 14, 2002

  Maybe this won't seem like such a big deal to you, since you don't watch The Education of Max Bickford--which is on CBS Sunday nights. Or... More >>

• Hart of Glass

  published February 14, 2002

  Hart's War is little more than a movie about the movies, which is the case with most mediocre films. Set in a POW camp during the... More >>