1.6.2002 00:24
Last year's favorites from our critics, Part II
Bob Leddy
Kubrick, The Definitive Edition,
by Michel Ciment. (Faber and Faber).
After years of being misunderstood, misquoted and over-hyped, the legendary director, who died in 1999, gets fitting and accurate postmortem treatment from French film critic Ciment. The book is an update of the author's 1980 opus,
Kubrick,
and includes perceptive analyses of Kubrick's last two films,
Full Metal Jacket
and
Eyes Wide Shut
. Bolstered by Kubrick's cooperation and input in preparing the book, Ciment's "Definitive Edition" more than lives up to its title.
12.30.2001 00:07
Before and after
President Bush was in Florida, promoting plans to boost reading skills. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared "war on bureaucracy" at the Pentagon. Health groups were busy on the eve of "National 9-1-1 Day" -- meant to raise awareness about heart attacks.
12.30.2001 00:07
Notable deaths of 2001
JANUARY
William Hewlett, 87. The shirt-sleeved engineer who co-founded Hewlett-Packard Co. in a garage in 1938 and pioneered Silicon Valley and the computer age itself. Jan. 12.
12.30.2001 00:07
Year's news: Sept. 10 seems like a long time ago
JANUARY
Jan. 9:
Linda Chavez withdraws bid to be labor secretary because of controversy over illegal immigrant who lived with her.
12.30.2001 00:31
Farewell . . .
George Harrison and Isaac Stern, Carroll O'Connor and Ray Walston, Jack Lemmon and Anthony Quinn, Perry Como and Imogene Coca -- these are just a few of the arts and entertainment figures who died in 2001.
12.30.2001 00:31
The best of the year from Billboard magazine
The following music charts appear in this week's special year-end issue of Billboard magazine. The charts were compiled by computer from Billboard's weekly and biweekly charts during the eligibility period, which was Dec. 2, 2000, through Nov. 24, 2001.
12.30.2001 00:31
GALA-vanting by Faye Zuckerman: Fundraising year was divided into two parts
The past year in parties and fundraisers was divided into two distinct categories -- before and after the Sept. 11 terrorism. Prior to the devastation, raising money for non-profits was poised to break attendance and proceeds records.
12.30.2001 00:31
Critics' choice: Favorites for 2001
Every year at this time we ask our reviewers to pick up to five of their favorite books of the year. It usually takes two weeks to get through all of them, and this year is no exception. Here, in no particular order, is the first batch.
12.30.2001 00:31
Best face forward
This was the year Ford found a new Ford -- William Clay Ford Jr., who took over the automobile company that bears his name.
12.28.2001 10:40
Metro: A tumultuous year in Providence
PROVIDENCE
-- Throughout 2001 the weather report has been the same for Rhode Island's capital city: Storm clouds gathered over City Hall.
12.28.2001 10:40
West Bay: Catching up with . . . Pawtuxet River
WEST WARWICK
-- One weekend in July, most of Natick Pond vanished -- draining away through a broken sluice gate that had burst after a spring of heavy rain.
12.28.2001 10:40
West Bay: Catching up with . . . Airport security
Foreign terrorists did not strike at T.F. Green Airport on Sept. 11, but they still managed to change everything at Rhode Island's principal state airport.
12.28.2001 10:40
West Bay: Catching up with . . . Park Cinema
CRANSTON
-- The Park Cinema is still for sale after renovation plans stalled last fall, dampening local residents' hopes of seeing the landmark theater open soon.
12.28.2001 10:40
West Bay: Catching up with . . . Gorilla engagement
CRANSTON
-- They haven't exchanged vows yet, but wedding bells are still in the offing for the couple who got engaged in the summer in the shadow of a huge, inflatable gorilla mounted on the roof of a Park Avenue restaurant.
12.28.2001 10:40
West Bay: Catching up with . . . Farewell to St. Xavier's
COVENTRY
-- After 150 years educating high school girls, St. Xavier Academy graduated its last class this summer. The tiny Catholic school finally succumbed to the pressures of increasing costs and dwindling enrollment.
12.28.2001 10:40
West Bay: Catching up with . . . Blueberry Heights
Townspeople already residents knew it, but the census results released this year spelled it out: In percentage, this rural town was the fastest-growing Rhode Island community during the last decade.
12.28.2001 10:40
East Bay: Memories of an unforgettable year
From the sun-splashed waterfront to the traffic-clogged bridges, from the playgrounds to the classrooms, whether at home or at work, East Bay's eight communities offered stories that revealed equal measures of hope and frustration in 2001 -- but with enough kindness to soften the edges of a challenging and sometimes difficult year.
12.28.2001 10:40
Northwest: Thumbs down for water, K-9 patrol in Scituate
SCITUATE
-- The year that was in this quiet suburb began with talk about tapping into the town's eponymous reservoir and ended with residents quashing a proposal to do just that.
12.28.2001 10:40 Blackstone
Valley: Groundbreakers, news makers of 2001
In news terms, 2001
was a mixed bag in the Blackstone Valley. It was a year of comedy and tragedy,
of change and continuity, of loose ends and issues neatly resolved.
12.28.2001 10:40 South
County: Interesting people in our towns in 2001
With the year 2001 coming
to a close, the reporters and editors in the South County bureau of the Providence
Journal tried to think of a way to memorialize the year in a way that captured
the news, but without relying on the standard recapping of events. The result?
Profiles of people who, for a variety of reasons, made headlines last year. You'll
meet a South Kingstown police officer who launched a program to make his community
a safer place, a teacher who wants her students to appreciate the teachings of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a mother who wants to make something good come out
of her daughter's untimely death, and a principal who is determined to make Chariho
Regional High School an example of excellence. These are not famous people in
the standard sense of the word, but they have merited attention in their own worlds.
Now we are sharing their worlds with you.
12.28.2001 10:40 South
COunty: Daughter lives on in memories NORTH KINGSTOWN
-- For Karen Miele, this year's best Christmas gifts did not have wrapping paper
and fancy bows. They weren't even for her.
12.28.2001 10:39 South
County: Educating tomorrow's peacemakers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN _ It
is 3:15 on the Thursday afternoon before Christmas and Robin Nelson looks tired.
But why shouldn't she be? Nelson teaches fifth grade at the Wakefield Elementary
School and she and her students have had quite a year.
12.28.2001 00:05 A
reel big year
It wasn't the best of
movie years, and yet -- surprise! -- it didn't seem such a chore coming up with
my picks for the 10 best movies of 2001.
12.27.2001 13:56 Local
luminaries
Billy Gilman released
Dare To Dream , a more mature follow-up to his debut One Voice , and Providence
native Blu Cantrell's debut, So Blu , hit No. 8 on Billboard's album charts. Beyond
the mainstream acts, Rhode Island musicians made strong music this year.
12.27.2001 13:56 A
perfect 10 PROVIDENCE
-- Every year at about this time, I'm asked to compile a list of the restaurants
I've reviewed in the last year and come up with the bests among them.
12.27.2001 13:56 Town
awash in water troubles, honors WWII veterans BURRILLVILLE
-- Bottled water became a necessity, not a luxury, for the people of Pascoag this
fall as about 4,000 residents found themselves unable to drink from their taps.
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