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Article: Y2K: The Prequel.(movie reviews)(Review)
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- The Nation
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- January 24, 2000
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Millennial Wrap-Up
Our New Year's number is a mother goose with three eggs tucked behind. It could be a sign of cryptic rhymes and unhatched possibilities-or maybe of silliness, tailed by a lot of nothing. Either way, I'm asking for a couple weeks' grace before this pictured future becomes the present; a thousand or so December releases are still clamoring in my brain.
Here's one I'd love to dump from the noggin: Frank Darabont's The Green Mile. Based on a serialized novel by Stephen King, this film towers above the past century's movies as a monument-a headstone, to be precise.
At the grave's foot is the rock upon which Hollywood was built, ...