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Onstage, Henry Goodman is a dynamo. To very different roles - from the worried husband in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass to the ruthless political fixer in Alistair Beaton's Feelgood - he brings a riveting, nervous energy. And he knows how to control it; the most compelling moment of his 1999 Olivier Award-winning Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Royal National Theatre was the character's sudden calm, as that energy was channeled into an overwhelming quest for revenge. Yet most people have never heard...
...given the money straight to Africa," he says, "I probably wouldn't have saved many people.") Juggling work, training, home life and studies - he's still working on his master's in architecture - has been hard. Since the press first caught on to his feelgood tale, it has been even harder: "The media, they come calling, saying, 'I want the story!' ... I don't have time to train, to work." And there's a little pressure from home. His parents think the investments of time and money should pay off with a gold. Says Menyoli: "They don't really know...
That may not be saying much. If you consider what we know now about the presidents who served from January, 1961 to August, 1974 (John Kennedy's Addison's disease and Dr. Feelgood drugs and relentless risky sex; Lyndon Johnson's grandiosity and paranoia, and Richard Nixon's blackly coiled weirdness) - why you have to wonder how the Republic survived...
...Humboldt Cannabis Center, a co-op that grows the drug for medicinal use, has a physician's certificate to treat her hot flashes with the weed. Since Prop. 215 passed more than two years ago, says Police Chief Brown, "everyone we try to arrest has a recommendation from Dr. Feelgood...
...Bullock and Kidman in a semi-lesbian erotic scene may arouse some, but eventually, it is just one more cheap trick to keep us in our seats. To give the flick a little credit, it never promises to be Citizen Kane, and it provides some good laughs and a feelgood finale. If you want a brain-candy slumber party movie, rent Practical Magic, by all means. Just don't expect it to work any magic...