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...BOTTOM LINE: Clint Black raises his radio-ready country pop to a higher level by adding a sobering dose of introspection...
Coroners, clowns and country singers should never be too happy; there's just something about their work that makes a crying-on-the-inside quality appropriate. Luckily for fans of country singer Clint Black -- and unfortunately, perhaps, for the man himself -- he is one of those people whose disquiet, in his lyrics at least, has increased as a function of his rising success. The reasoning of such people tends to be variants on the following: I have a new car, a home, a pretty wife . . . Hmmm. Now that I have these things I could lose them: my car could...
...career by - taking off his shirt, and Tom Cruise, who has played lawyers, for Pete's sake, in his last two huge hits (A Few Good Men and The Firm). Audiences also doted on actors old enough to be grandfathers: Ford in The Fugitive, Sean Connery in Rising Sun, Clint Eastwood in In the Line of Fire...
...unthinkable: he wouldn't let the film be made with Tom Cruise in the lead role because it would mean jettisoning the "backstory" about a Secret Service agent old enough to have served President Kennedy. "I think it's wonderful that that didn't happen," Petersen says. "Clint is not a young guy anymore, but he is a good actor, and it works." In a bedroom scene with a young female agent, the Eastwood character drops the implements of his trade -- guns, cuffs, a blackjack -- on the floor, and then, when their tryst is interrupted, grouses that...
CINEMA Woody Allen returns to pure comedy in Manhattan Murder Mystery, but he seems distracted. King of the Hill takes a tough-minded look at boyhood during the Depression. MUSIC Clint Black sings radio-ready country pop that has a splash of introspection. From Britain's Gavin Bryars comes a minimalist milestone. THEATER That spunky orphan is back, but in Annie Warbucks, her appeal is much scaled down. BOOKS Showdown at Opal Creek is a clear, sensitive account of the timber wars in Oregon and the fate of the last old- growth stands...