Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking is so smooth that he even takes in the audience, leaving them all the more crushed at his final betrayal. Carmichael displays an impressive range of emotions that protect his character from stagnancy. He becomes, in one sense, a key figure of opportunist temptation in the play - a devil swathed in the borrowed robes of opportunity...
...good for you! The Hurricane tells the also "epic" tale of a boxer's struggle to battle racism and the justice system after being wrongly convicted of murder. Gag. There's more-Bicentennial Man's story of a "robot journeying to be a real man," Ride with the Devil's Civil War extravaganza, The Cider House Rules' lovey-dovey schmaltz, etc. Add in last week's Green Mile and what do you get? Ack. Double gag. Where's the counterprogramming? Where's the cynicism? After all, these could be the last movies we will ever...
Every schoolchild knows how "dangerous" zero can be. Just try dividing a number by zero and all hell breaks loose; indeed, zero was once scorned as the devil's work. It is such a familiar number today that it may be hard to believe there was a time--hundreds of years, actually--when our species counted and spoke but had no concept of zero. Seife and Kaplan both trace the history of naught, from its inception in Babylon around 300 B.C. through Athens, India and Europe later in the Middle Ages. It took Western mathematicians so long to accept zero...
...rationale for turning the television show Charlie's Angels into a movie is still a mystery, but the question of who will play the well-coiffed crime stoppers has finally been solved. Though Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz signed on months ago, producers had a devil of a time finding a third angel. At various points in the protracted casting search, everyone from Posh Spice to Angelina Jolie was touted as the leading candidate. But last week LUCY LIU, who plays the less-than-saintly Ling on Ally McBeal, nabbed the role. The movie will diverge from the series...
...Civil War, whether Blue or Gray, are recalled with sympathy, poignancy. They left their homes to fight in someone else's backyard for freedom or tradition. The truth, though, may be closer to the blind, bloody chaos depicted in Ang Lee's severe, handsomely rendered Ride with the Devil. In Border states like Missouri, a young man was at war not only with his brother but with his own best instincts as well...