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...SEASON OF GIANTS (TNT, Mar. 17, 18, 8 p.m. EST). The life and times of Michelangelo (British newcomer Mark Frankel) are the subject of this lush- looking, silly-sounding four-hour mini-series, which also gives us the skinny on the "eccentric" Leonardo (John Glover -- who else?), Pope Julius II (F. Murray Abraham), Raphael and Savonarola. In short, your basic Italian Renaissance docudrams...
...SLEEP WITH ANGER. A charming wastrel (Danny Glover) brings the dark past into the restless heart of a middle-class black family. Charles Burnett's drama is an acute and beautifully played evocation of the down-home ghosts that may haunt and taunt any urban family...
This handsome, volcanically violent road movie is Lynch's first flat-out comedy; he and his ensemble (including Diane Ladd and Crispin Glover) work at high pitch and have a swell time at it. Wild at Heart is also the first Lynch film in which his motives -- to hang a haberdashery of bizarre incidents on the merest hook of plot -- are apparent. You might go, "Ick!" but you won't ask, "Huh?" What's lacking is the old sense of delicious, disturbing mystery. Wild at Heart reveals a master of movie style on his way to becoming a mannerist...
...vividly illustrate Lula's contention that the "whole world's wild at heart and weird on top." But the picture is charged with so much deranged energy, so many bravura images, that it's hard not to be seduced by the sick wonder of it all. One character (Crispin Glover) puts cockroaches in his underwear and breaks into sobs when told that Christmas is still six months away. Heads get crushed, punctured and blown sky-high; a dog trots past with a severed hand in its mouth. Lula has the movie pegged when, at one typical moment, she exclaims, "Lordy...
Penn got into Dartmouth territory once--late in the first quarter--but Malcolm Glover threw an interception to Brad Preble at the 14-yd line...