Word: davidson
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...British soldier (Forest Whitaker) wheedles a friendship out of Fergus (Stephen Rea), his reluctant IRA captor. Can Fergus kill a man he has grown fond of? And later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything but traditional. The Crying Game asks...
...play is full of comic character types, allowing the cast to show considerable talent and style. Jenny Davidson really rings the audience's bell, snorting her way through the production as the hobbling, grunting Luxurioso. In her monologue climbing the stairs at the end of scene 13, she transcends mere stereotype to take command of the whole theatre: the audience is rapt...
THEY ARE A STRANGE QUARTET: THE sensitive IRA gunman (Stephen Rea) and his brutal blond colleague (Miranda Richardson); the gentle English soldier they take hostage (Forest Whitaker) and the love he left behind (comely newcomer Jaye Davidson). In THE CRYING GAME, Irish writer-director Neil Jordan spins his had-I-but-known plot twists from Belfast to London. By the end of this devious thriller, just about everyone has had to point a loaded gun at just about anyone else he or she might have cared for. In a style of agitated naturalism, Jordan (Mona Lisa) examines poignant matters...
...backed by stellar vocalists James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, makes for a fine sound. Love stories are ample here, but they are subtle and, in some cases, sublimely subversive. In "Unknown Legend," for example, Young sings of a a distant passion: "Somewhere in a desert highway/She rides a Harley-Davidson." In print, it's not the most romantic image in the world, but the music--and Ronstadt's voice--brings the image to life...
VACATIONERS SEEKING peace and quiet might want to consider a survey of the favorite destinations of 5,000 Harley-Davidson motorcycle owners, taken by an owners' group. The top picks in order: the Black Hills and the national parks of Yellowstone, Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Rocky Mountain...