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...Betty Ann Marsee may be blaming U.S. Tobacco for manufacturing the product that caused her son Sean's cancer, but where was she when her twelve-year-old began dipping snuff? It is frightening to see so many children using tobacco. I believe that the primary responsibility lies with the parents. Saul Hoffman, M.D. New York City
...through a sliding microtonal minefield. A small Renaissance ensemble often accompanies the shadowy, faceless Ariel (Mezzo Susan Quittmeyer) on his spritely missions, and his unaccompanied Where the bee sucks becomes a mock-Elizabethan song. A trio of alto sax, electric guitar and electric bass represents the bestial Caliban (Mezzo Ann Howard), and his drunken revels with Trinculo and Stephano are celebrated with some exquisitely low-down jazzrock that closes the first act in a brilliant theatrical burst. (Eaton, 50, a professor of composition at Indiana University, was a successful jazz pianist in his younger days...
...Harry only reluctantly concedes the validity of his need for emotional renewal, and he never entirely forgives himself the pain he causes. He is, in fact, as surprised as anyone when, while celebrating his 50th birthday with his fellow mill hands, he falls passionately in love with a barmaid (Ann-Margret). Stunned, Kate is tempted toward but fights off a state of permanent victimization. Helping her to remobilize are a married daughter (Amy Madigan), who ferociously expresses the anger her mother represses, and a younger sibling (Ally Sheedy), whose wedding, in suddenly straitened circumstances, requires some ingenuity from all three...
...brings life to realism as effectively as he brings realism to fantasy in Target. Burstyn clarifies her character without oversimplifying. She finds both repose and luminosity in Kate. Madigan is not afraid to let the audience dislike her abrasiveness, while Sheedy uses patience and stillness as a counterpoise. Only Ann-Margret is somewhat shortchanged by the script: her motives are never made fully clear. Sometimes, too, the movie feels overly tidy and pleased with its own humanism. But it unashamedly keeps scratching away at small behavioral truths, and draws some blood in the process...
...time when we put overwhelming demands on ourselves and others to be superstars, superheroes and superwomen, Keillor reminds us that most people are just plain folks. Jean-Paul Pegeron Ann Arbor, Mich...