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...other hand, Mel Gibson, wearing a bald wig and a manner both fussy and insistent, is wonderful as the psychiatrist who restores Dark to a semblance of health. Robin Wright Penn is equally compelling as Dark's estranged, emotionally ambiguous wife. And it's good to be in touch, even in a somewhat diminished form, with one of the most potent works of modern pop culture. --By Richard Schickel
...wrote the screen adaptation of his famous mini-series, which may be the best television show ever made. And, yes, all concerned with the film have labored on it with obvious love and respect. And, yes, all the TV show's moves are honorably replicated. Potter's hero, Dan Dark, is immobilized, in searing pain, by crippling psoriasis (as the writer himself was). Dark escapes into a fantasy world, imagining himself the hero of a movie based on an old pulp detective novel. He is also haunted by his past, which made him an angry misogynist-cum-misanthrope. From time...
...work a little more sunnily, and it is, perhaps, too compressed; it needs TV's room to digress. And the director, Keith Gordon, doesn't really recapture '50s Los Angeles, where Potter reset his flashbacks. They feel perfunctory (and underbudgeted). Finally, Robert Downey Jr., who works hard as Dark, just doesn't have the weight, age and rage Michael Gambon brought to the role...
...Angeles. Smith, who changed his name to Elliott as a teenager because Steve sounded too "jockish," got his start in the punk band Heatmiser before turning to a folkier, more reflective solo style. Influenced by Nick Drake and the Beatles, he recorded five CDs of smart, emotionally dark songs that impressed critics, inspired a cult following, and in 1998 won him an Oscar nomination for Miss Misery--one of five of his songs on the Good Will Hunting sound track...
...called “dark horse” in tomorrow’s city council election, DeBergalis has been no stranger this election season to Mather House—or to the Yard or MIT frats, for that matter—in pursuit of student voters, a typically-neglected segment of the electorate that he targets as his core constituency...