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There is a good bit of manicured savagery in songs like New York Minute and If Dirt Were Dollars ("I was flyin' back from Lubbock/ I saw Jesus on the plane/ . . . or maybe it was Elvis/ You know, they kinda look the same"), and a memorably nasty cameo portrait of Ronald Reagan as a cowboy named Jingo in Little Tin God. That's vintage Henley, delivered with a snarl and a smile, but The Heart of the Matter, which ends the record, is the struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin...
Here he is plastering rouge on the Old Hollywood corpse. In the heyday of the studio system, few stars were given the chance of controlling their cinematic fate. Lawrence Kasdan, who directed Costner in The Big Chill (where , his substantial role was cut to a few cameo shots as a corpse) and Silverado, compares the actor with Steve McQueen. "Like McQueen," Kasdan notes, "Kevin has a real sense of what he can do. He has always known what's really important for him, rather than what others think is important...
Indy 3, like Raiders, features airplane stunts, a brawl on a careering vehicle and a sacred quest: a search for the Holy Grail, the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper. The film expands the role of Denholm Elliott as a museum curator and tosses in a cameo appearance by Adolf Hitler, who autographs Henry's Grail diary. A new twist is Elsa (capable Alison Doody), a blond sorceress poised between greed and glory. She is an Indy gone wrong, and the series' first indispensable female...
Despite a lovely cameo turn by Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams is the male weepie at its wussiest. There is poetry in baseball, sure, but it is not shaggy doggerel of the Joyce Kilmer stripe: "I think that I shall ne'er remark/ A cornfield green as Fenway Park." It comes in the concrete poetry of a Bill James statistical analysis, or in the sprung rhythm of a Roger Angell paragraph. Or in the flight of a ball from the pitcher's hand toward the catcher's glove, with a million delicious options at stake...
...rowdy rendition of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" while simultaneously leading the cast in a chorus kick-line. Equally ridiculous is the light saber battle scene between Thumb and rival Lord Grizzle (Carl Bj Fox). Also garnering a high reading on the laughmeter is the cameo appearance of the ghost of Gaffer Thumb (Eric Olsen), who surfaces via the magic of video...