Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are witches. The series, which has drawn surprisingly good ratings, manages to tap into TV's current fascination with the occult (The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) while recalling the classic three-babe structure of Spelling's '70s hit Charlie's Angels. Here, Doherty would seem to fit into the Jaclyn Smith mold--easily the most beautiful one but not necessarily the sexiest. (Alyssa Milano gets the Farrah Fawcett-Majors pinup part, while Holly Marie Combs is stuck with Kate Jackson...
...Ryan hosted a poetry read where people could bring poetry and music--one or the other....And we both had written something and liked what [one an] other wrote. [Our] styles didn't necessarily match, but they sort of fit together, sort of blended...
Sisters Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman) Owens are born into a family of witches who practice white magic. Good witch Sally tries to fit into a small New England town, while Gillian looks for love in all the wrong places while trying out her magical powers. The familial curse is that a man who loves one of the Owens' witches will meet an untimely death, as Gillian's abusive boyfriend Jimmy (Goran Visnjic) does at the hands of Bullock, accidentally on purpose...
This movie was not even given the benefit of bitchiness that The Craft had going for it. Where Neve Campbell and company reveled in their magic, Bullock tries to repress it, downplaying her powers in order to fit in. Kidman does her best to portray the bad girl who uses her magic for fun, but such a sickly sweet Bullock offsets her. Kidman walks into Bullock's attempts to create a normal life in smalltown New England, saying things like, "Hang on to your husbands, ladies." But we end up feeling sorry for Kidman instead of rejoicing in her power...
...devotion. They are prepared to sacrifice the integrity of anything and everything on the almighty altar of Diversity, blind not only to objection but even to the most reasonable calls to mere reflection and restraint. It is therefore not surprising that no one at Tuesday's Faculty meeting saw fit to offer a substantive reply to Mansfield's complaints. It is easier for those secure in their enlightenment to simply stand silently aghast at the ignorant in their midst, especially when it's just some old codger like Harvey Mansfield...