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FRANCINE PROSE novelist (Blue Angel...
What you probably will never guess is that Angel Eyes is better than the plot makes it sound. Partly that's because the director, Luis Mandoki, who made the ghastly Message in a Bottle, balances the movie's sentiment with a good, tough view of a cop's life both on the job and (especially) off duty. He's good with the hard kidding in bars and junk-food emporiums. Mostly, though, the movie works because Lopez gives such a terrific performance. She's a vulnerable hard-ass, lonesome but damned if she'll admit it, forgiving in some relationships...
...rich! Through the magic of statistics, ABC is No. 1 overall--and CBS is too! Today's buzz: Smallville, the WB's teen-Superman series; on ABC, Jason Alexander's sitcom Bob Patterson and college-girl-turned-spy thriller Alias, which ABC hypes as a combination of Dark Angel and the cure for cancer. "Hype is just an acronym," Alexander tells the ad buyers. "It stands for Hope You Purchase Everything...
Laura Nyro, just 19 and wearing a black gown with an angel's wing on her shoulder, got booed off the stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. That may help explain why, for the rest of her career, this rock innovator shied away from the limelight, writing songs that others turned into hits (Stoned Soul Picnic for the 5th Dimension; And When I Die for Blood, Sweat and Tears; Stoney End for Barbra Streisand). The crowd at that landmark Monterey festival was more into high-energy rockers like Janis Joplin, for whom performing was as intoxicating as the heroin...
...until last weekend, Taylor had the best time in the nation in the 400 hurdles, thanks to her performance of 56.11 seconds at the Penn Relays on April 26. But Texas’ Angel Patterson edged out Taylor’s personal-best time with a 56.09-second run at the Big 12 Championships on Saturday...