Deirdre M. Donahue

Janis-Faced Rose

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J ANIS JOPLIN would have detested The Rose. Starring Bette Midler, this thinly-disguised biography chronicles the epic self-destruction of Rose,

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I F YOU WANT to understand incest, wait for a re-run of Lolita. While Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece doesn't deal with

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V OTED IN 1948 by Life magazine as "the best place to live in America," Madison, Wisconsin still seemed to

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I t's awfully hard to feel sorry for a man who disembowels little girls. In fact, Director Bertrand Tavernier's new

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I GNORE THE TITLE. Director Coline Serreau's new film, Pourquoi Pas! is not yet another link in that chain of

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E NCHANTING is an adjective usually reserved for miniature music boxes and grand-children. When used in reference to movies, one

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W ATCHING A SUPERB actor debase himself in search of that seven figure income no longer shocks me--the sight of