I wanted to like "Spice World."
Don't get me wrong - by no stretch of the imagination am I a fan or follower of such superficial Girl Power. 
Old Spice? Girls overstay welcome with bland 'World'
"Mozart is the greatest composer of all. Beethoven created his music, but the music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
Concert celebrates Mozart's birth
When you take the good and you take the bad, if you take them both, well, there you have another paint-by-numbers sitcom. It's just incidental that this one happens to star Nancy McKeon and Jean Smart.
In "Style & Substance," the two actresses are situated in yet another "madcap" '90s office, where the fashionable and insecure businesswoman meet her match in an honest and practical new manager. 
Mediocre 'Style' lacks substance
Billy Bong Thorton. Wesley Pipes. New Hollywood stars? Well, not exactly, even though the two are major players in the pot-smoking comedy, "Half Baked." The names relate to the names of the stoners' favorite pipes.
Make no mistake about it, plot is secondary in this movie. Except for the marijuana twist, it's nothing more than the typical save-the-jailed-friend routine. The makers seem to be much more interested in making sure each scene tops the one before it in terms of humor.'Baked' trip proves only half-fun
In Julia Alvarez's third novel, "Yo!," the inside cover page reads: "All of the characters and events in these stories are entirely fictional, inventions drawn from imagination and experience. No reference to any living person or real event is intended or should be inferred." In any fictional novel, there will be a disclaimer similar to this.
Novels unearth complexities
The soundtrack for "Full Blast" has to be the first Detroit music compilation in years that won't embarrass you and the whole southeastern Michigan music scene. And it's for a movie starring porn actress Tracy Lords and "Kung Fu"'s David Carradine, nonetheless.'Blast' scores as a local compilation
01-26-98
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