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...Pictures of Darin Erstad, the Los Angeles Angel born 32 years ago in Jamestown...
...gala honoring the 400th anniversary of the Romanov imperial dynasty, after which, naturally, the Russian Orthodox Church canonizes Lenin as "the guardian of the poor and the weak." Reality is also given an alternate course in Kurkov's 2000 satire of the modern-day Ukrainian Security Service, The Kind Angel of Death, in which a colonel complains that a lack of funding is forcing the former kgb to "use the passive help of our citizens ... Unfortunately, none of these assistants of ours ever managed to assist us without our help." Kurkov captures such absurdities of post-Soviet existence with characteristic...
...early '90s it was possible to love the British quintet without a shred of guilt or defensiveness. On "Creep," the band's searing 1992 hit single, a self-described "weirdo" strips his psyche bare. "I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul," he laments, Yorke's fallen angel voice almost choking with unrequited love. But by the time Jonny Greenwood's buzz-saw guitar cuts through the pathos on the chorus, Yorke's declaration of creepdom has a become a defiant anthem for anyone who has ever wanted someone or something they can't have...
...labeled "This," "That," "What" and "Which," revelers cooled off in a giant mushroom water fountain, watched movies and comedy acts, or gaped at giant smoke rings wafting across the limpid evening sky. Meanwhile, on a wide expanse of lawn studded with giant gremlin-like sculptures, a woman wearing pink angel wings leapt at oversized bubbles being blown by a pair of shirtless young men. "Sorry, I couldn't control myself!," she exclaimed...
...lonesome cowboys, Dusty and Lefty (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly) that have been a long-standing feature of the show. These figures are present, but worked into a feckless and meandering story, which features "A Dangerous Lady" (Virginia Madsen) in a white trenchcoat, who is actually the Angel of Death, come to claim "The Axeman" (Tommy Lee Jones), who is present to administer the coup de grace to the program. There are a number of subplots in the film, in the best of which Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin play singing sisters, once promising, now more than a little...