Word: forrestic
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...Read Forrest, read. Associate professor of English at Providence College Forrest Gander reads from his poetry tonight. His collections include "Rush to the Lake" and "Lynchburg". A Reception will follow in Farnsworth Room. Woodberry Poetry, Forum Room, Lamont Library. 495-2452. 5:30 p.m. FREE...
...Apollo 13 mission, he gave me a cagey "not really" when I asked if he had cried. He also said he didn't cry at the movie Apollo 13, even though it was his story, but admitted to having been made "emotional" by another Tom Hanks vehicle, Forrest Gump, which I always thought of as a real wussy movie, though I was too chicken to say so to Lovell...
There's Bonnie (Meg Ryan), the woman used by Eddie and Mickey as their own sexual welcome wagon. There's Darlene (Robin Wright Penn in a reprise of the troubled slut she portrayed in Forrest Gump and Moll Flanders; I miss The Princess Bride), the old flame passed between Eddie and Mickey who counters Eddie's infidelity with her own in mock independence. There's Phil (Chazz Palminteri), the struggling actor who drowns his artistic voice in a persistent whine about his own worth. And there's weed, Valium, fast cars, big houses, sex, sex and more...
...ought to be enough that Hanks is a solid, supple actor who not only takes ornery subjects (AIDS, Vietnam, the U.S. space program) and turns them into hits (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13), but also gives almost all his movies a moral center. In this age of the outlaw, he defines the ideal norm: he is our best us on our worst day, soldiering on through heartbreak. In Saving Private Ryan, for which he may earn his third Oscar as the tough, paternal Captain Miller, Hanks has a moment when the burden of leadership in war has nearly broken...
Almost despite itself, The Prince of Egypt recalls familiar cartoon motifs. Like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and The Lion King (and for that matter, Gone With the Wind, Star Wars, Forrest Gump and Hamlet), this is a coming-of-age story, a tale of youth pressed into troubled maturity during a national cataclysm. As for the film's basic plot--a bright misfit goes undercover to save his people from foreign domination--it's pure Mulan. You'll also find echoes of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 essay in panoramic kitsch, The Ten Commandments (including the climactic Red Sea parting...