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1999 Stories by Gary Susman

• Jewish Soul, American Beat

  published May 25, 1999

  This documentary's title dares to find something harmonious in the thorny issue of Jewish assimilation in America. Pfeffer bucks conventional... More >>

• The King of Masks

  published April 27, 1999

  The King of Masks is a conventional melodrama whose dialogue has the stale ring of fortune-cookie aphorisms. Yet, as one character... More >>

• California Myth

  published April 6, 1999

  Welcome to Roberto Klein's (Tyrone Power Jr.) midlife crisis. He hates his job, his wife's pregnancy has deflated his sex life, and he's lusting... More >>

• The Rook

  published March 16, 1999

  The real star of The Rook is production designer Sebastian Schroder, who, with an obviously minuscule budget, has done some of the most... More >>

• Cable Guy

  published March 2, 1999

  Given the recognition accorded such recent films as Lolita, Bastard Out of Carolina, and The Last Seduction, there is no... More >>

• The Last Days

  published February 2, 1999

  Though it's full of the conventions of Holocaust documentaries — survivors who burst into tears in midstory, indelible footage of the walking... More >>

• Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation

  published January 26, 1999

  Like it or not, Spike and Mike's festival of animation, the annual anthology of cartoons that play human cruelty and decrepitude for locker-room... More >>