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...dubious distinction of being upstaged by the HAL like computer appearing in the first half. Not a small feat, considering the voice only appears for two minutes during one of the film's many crises. The cast spends most of the time staring into space (literally) and looking forlorn while visual effects whizz around them, but there's little pathos or sympathy involved because De Palma substitutes dramatic tension for nifty camera work. When miniature asteroids pierce the hull and Jerry O'Connell's hand, we don't care about the crew's impending death, just how cool blood looks...

Author: By James Crawford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mission Aborted: A Space Travesty | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...starred in any of a zillion teen comedies. But he chose a tougher route to filling out his resume. And as it grew, in his seven major roles before Titanic, a portrait of the young artist began to emerge. So often DiCaprio played the emotional orphan, in a forlorn quest not for a father but for his own budding maturity--for a chance to become the man who needs no father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Beach Boy | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

SURPRISE FACTOR Even singing holiday songs, she sounds forlorn JINGLE BELL ROCK RATING (OUT OF 5) [2 1/2 ornaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Beginning To Sound A Lot Like Christmas Past | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...home that April Divilbiss has shared with the two men she calls her husbands, you drive south on Interstate 55 from Memphis, Tenn., and cross the border into Mississippi. Then you double back along a little road that winds into a forlorn section of Memphis again. It's not just two states but several states of mind you end up traversing. That's because the family album under the TV in April's apartment contains snapshots not of a happy couple but of a devoted threesome. And baby makes four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry & Mary & Janet &... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Buffy drives home, forlorn, after a particularly wrenching scene with Angel; teardrop face framed in the windshield under a rain-dark sky. It's a lovely television moment, and the addition of Alison Krauss & Union Station's wistful, wispy "It Doesn't Matter" touches it with greatness...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, | Title: Album Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Album | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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