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...festival seemed almost to be a "deja vu" of this summer's Lillith Fair--Lisa Loeb, Paula Cole and Sarah McLachlan were all present. McLachlan, who headlined Sunday evening, was by far the biggest drawer of the weekend Fans who stuck around in the crowds and cold weather long enough to hear her play were definitely rewarded. MIX, who was broadcasting live from the concert and filling the intermissions with their own airwaves, goofed big time by playing McLachlan's hit "Building a Mystery" moments before she opened live with that song. Although many fans booed when it happened, they...
...dust jacket of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's latest (and probably last) book, promises some sort of science-fiction fantasy ride through a highly ironic universe. "Futurology!" it screams, "Ten years of deja vu all over again!" Unfortunately for Douglas Adams fans, nothing could be further from the truth. You can't really blame the poor dust jacket writer, who had the unenviable task of summarizing, in concise and entertaining prose, the essence of a book that defies easy classification...
Lange, another of our most compelling actresses, is unfortunately stuck in a role that strongly recalls her earlier, more interesting work in "Frances" and "Music Box." One thing an audience should not feel in a drama this malignant is a niggling deja vu. Leigh, for once, drops the mannerisms, but her brisk performance is essentially a protracted walk-on. The husbands and other secondary characters barely register, serving a structural purpose in Jones' script that affords them little vitality...
Suddenly, I had this overwhelming feeling of deja vu. Where had I heard this sequence before? What other personal information had the power to make someone feel sheepish, even inferior...
...deja blue all over again. On video, and with Grindhouse, bad-movie lovers can be taken once more. It's good clean fun, really--for we are taken back to an age when moviegoers were innocent enough to be shocked, and producers were canny enough to do the shucking...