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...lone goal was scored with 10:05 left in the game when sophomore Jennifer Peyser took a shot from the right side of the cage. Harvard goalkeeper Katie Zacarian saved it, but Peyser beat her on the rebound, taking the Wildcats to victory...
Then in 1996 he had one of those years actors dream of: he won an Oscar for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas, and he became Hollywood's newest action star in The Rock. Cage has since concentrated on macho-mayhem movies and winsome love stories. His work is as popular with filmgoers as it is ignored by critics. Aside from four Blockbuster Entertainment awards in five years, the only citations he's received are for speeding in Jerry Bruckheimer transport epics like Con Air and Gone in 60 Seconds...
Corelli, adapted by Shawn Slovo from Louis de Bernieres' novel, casts Cage as an Italian soldier occupying the Greek island of Cephalonia in the early days of World War II. Since the Italians, as Corelli says, are lovers and not fighters (don't tell Tony Soprano), he and his men spend their time singing Verdi, dancing in the square and making the ladies happy. Apparently only the Nazis took war seriously back then; when Germany takes over the island, atrocity is only a plot twist away...
...winning Shakespeare in Love--the main Greeks are played by an Englishman (John Hurt), a Welshman (Christian Bale) and a Spaniard (Cruz, pre-Tom Cruise). Corelli is a coffee-table movie: one leafs through the gorgeous vistas and nods through the narrative. That leaves plenty of time to ponder Cage's dilemma. Does he keep paddling in the mainstream or return to the edge of weirdness...
...latter with Adaptation, from the Being John Malkovich team of Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze. Meanwhile, we shouldn't rush to judge Cage or devalue his recent work. He was never one to do the expected. He took the hard way to stardom, with quirky portrayals in orphan movies. He may now be doing something even braver: anchoring serious or silly films with the haunting loneliness and eccentric rhythms that, even as a star, he can't shake. To invest his special gravity in nice-guy roles--this may be the strange quest and triumph of Nic the Nice...