Word: angelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deja vu. A Pittsburgh weatherman (Bill Murray) visits Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, home of the Groundhog Day Festival, and finds himself forced to relive that particular Feb. 2 over and over, maybe forever -- or at least until he gets it right. You might describe the film as Son of The Exterminating Angel (1963), Luis Bunuel's surrealist movie prank about a dinner party no one can leave. But, not to worry, it ends up as It's a Wonderful Life. And it has Murray, who, ever since his debut on Saturday Night Live in 1976, has been defining the would...
...skill with ballads, but he has packed in a few humdingers here, including songs of love in advancing age (Evening Gown) and against tall odds (Hang On to Me Tonight). Most surprising of all, Wandering Spirit closes with an unexpected knockout combination of two low-key tunes: Angel in My Heart, which has instrumental echoes of the Stones' classic Lady Jane, and Handsome Molly, a traditional folk song that gives the record a coda that lingers like the end of a ghostly love story...
...Happy Millard Fillmore's Day, angel...
Stephen Rea, a veteran of Jordan's Angel (about the IRA) and The Company of Wolves (in which he played a seductive wolf-man) who is now starring on Broadway as a Middle East hostage in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, has long tangled with questions of personal and national identity. He is an Irish Protestant; his Irish Catholic wife, Delours Price, was an IRA hunger striker convicted of car bombings 20 years ago. "The whole nature of my country has been in question," he says. "If you use an army to solve a problem -- the British army...
...moment last year we seemed to be on the verge of a major new trend, the theme of which was angels. People were snapping up angel pins and wearing them on their shoulders, where normally the chip is carried. Soon, the trend spotters hoped, there would be a rage for choir music, angel food cake and Marshmallow Fluff. Huge feathery wings would sprout out from trench coats and parkas. But, alas, angels sputtered and stalled and never quite got off the ground...