Word: anjelica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crimes and misdemeanors Allen records in this film go not merely unpunished; they are generously rewarded. Upstairs, on the melodramatic story line, a hypocritical Judah gets away with murder, arranging for the assassination of his mistress (Anjelica Huston), who threatens to make their affair -- and his equally shabby financial affairs -- public, thereby destroying his family, wealth and reputation...
...Tommy Lee Jones provides stern counterpoint as McCrae's partner, Woodrow F. Call. Dozens of finely etched characters surround them: a roguish ex-Ranger turned gambler (Robert Urich); a prostitute looking for escape (Diane Lane); a wimpy sheriff (Chris Cooper) searching for his runaway wife; and a lost love (Anjelica Huston) whom McCrae locates on the plains of Nebraska. Not to mention sadistic outlaws, vicious Indians and other disasters, natural and man-made, on the road to Montana...
...viewers will get the chance to judge for themselves next month, when CBS broadcasts Motown's first mini-series, the eight-hour Lonesome Dove. Starring Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston and Danny Glover, the series is based on Larry McMurtry's best-selling 1985 novel about a 19th century cattle drive. The epic will air on four consecutive nights, starting...
...Revisited, a novel more in tune with the filmmakers' earnest approach. They are respectful, gently pruning and rearranging Waugh's plot to suit the imperatives of another medium. They have a nice taste in period decor, and they can tap the mannerly acting styles of Judi Dench, Alec Guinness, Anjelica Huston and Pip Torrens...
...party, a tenor sings an old air, The Lass of Aughrim. This puts Gretta Conroy (Anjelica Huston) in a pensive mood: a delicate young man she once loved, and who hastened his death by courting her, used to sing it. In their hotel room, Gretta tells her husband Gabriel (Donal McCann) about this lost love, arousing an unworthy jealousy. She falls asleep, and he stares out the window, as the snow -- symbol of the universe's indifference to petty social preoccupations and petty emotions too -- falls "upon all the living and the dead." Nature, playing no favorites, blankets them...