Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: Touched by an Angel OCCUPATION: Sanctimonious TV series BEST PUNCH: Angel network CBS complained the ads suggested a link between the series and the "irreverent movie that apparently belittles every religious tenet embraced by our show."
A. A resentment born of the suspicion that all along the media were up to their usual tricks, hyping a notional calamity to the max in order to make us buy more copies and tune into TV specials titled The Day the Food Ran Out. Then, too, followers of certain...
Sylvia's doctor father sternly forbids contact between them; it endangers his hard-won position. Ben's father Nate (Joe Mantegna) is distractedly against it too, though most of his attention is focused on his two troubled businesses--a failing burlesque house and a numbers racket threatened by an obstreperous...
Little Melvin will bring Nate--a decent guy despite his shabby work--to an uncomfortable end. Indeed, no one in this movie gets what he or she really wants or deserves. Even the romance between Ben's older brother Van (Adrien Brody) and his Wasp princess Dubbie (Carolyn Murphy) ends...
This reliance on her ear is an oddity in a time when most actors, choosing a role, depend on that anatomically (and emotionally) imprecise region that lies somewhere between a hungry gut and a yawning ego. But it has kept Moore busy (21 features since 1992) and won her an...