Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chance 10 years ago but who now go home and grow up. Maybe they will become doctors too. But it is also a war zone, and if you are not fighting the enemy or loading the weapons or plotting the next campaign, you can hardly understand what a brave, brutal, mysterious place this really...
Through a tough course of suppression and revelation, Winfrey finally got it right. This isn't a gimmick performance; it is genuine acting, and it abrades nicely against the more ingratiating characters in the ensemble. Her work will be called brave, but really it's canny; Oprah becoming the anti-Oprah will win deserved praise. Off camera, though, she was totally Oprah. Demme tells of an electrician on the crew who was in a deep depression over a family crisis. Winfrey, who didn't know the circumstances but could tell something was wrong, went to the man and hugged...
...play (which he hasn't seen or read) as anti-Catholic and a "contribution to hate-speech." The League and several free-speech groups plan to demonstrate on opening night. Meanwhile, those who excoriated the theater for its timidity are now praising it. "I think it's a brave thing they're doing," says Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss). Braver still would be for everyone to cool off and just watch the play...
...Rating: [5 umbrellas] Noting how well the whole boat motif worked for Leo DiCaprio, Kerry Sanders grips a ship's mast with one hand and a wind meter with the other. Insanely stupid or uncommonly brave? Either...
...Mike Myers' droll, brave impersonation, Rubell is a starstruck lout, a user-abuser, seductively snaky, cheerily malevolent; he could be Lolita's Clare Quilty without the gaudy wordplay. It'd be fun to see a movie about this Rubell. Alas, 54 focuses on the kids who worked for him: Shane the blond busboy (Ryan Phillippe), Anita the coat checker (Salma Hayek) and other cutie losers. The film tries to toss Saturday Night Fever's bridge-and-tunnel dreamers into the '70s' hottest disco. But for that to work, you need verve, edge and Travolta. All those are absent here...