Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robin Williams, fresh from his Academy Award for Good Will Hunting, again leaves his comedic training behind him in his role as Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in despair. The premise is fraught with difficulties. Although the plot is standard quest situation, it also demands that the film deal with questions of religion, God and the afterlife. The screenplay by Ron Bass gives the standard Hollywood compromise that eliminates God from the proceedings. By setting the film on earth, City...
...still underdeveloped. You can't expect us to take on every task that adults seem to be able to handle. Have sympathy for a teenager, will you? Go ahead and petition for that new law; I'm all for it. But leave the poor guy alone, for heaven's sake. JUDY LI, 16 Walnut, Calif...
...Courtney Love. She has lived in Liverpool and Dublin; she has slogged through reform schools and stripped in strip clubs. Skin starts off self-consciously, with Love reveling in her notoriety. "I'm all I wanna be," she wails. "A walking study/ In demonology." Certain images repeat: angels, stars, heaven. "I'm a cancer," Love explains. "I recycle." Death is on her mind. A number of songs mourn the failing spirit of alternative rock. She sings, "Oh the boys on the radio/ They crash and burn." Other songs are haunted by the 1994 suicide of her husband, Nirvana's Kurt...
...lighter side of the spectrum is the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Lampoon castle is a heaven for people who were frequently teased as children and have turned to humor as a defense mechanism...
...early Spanish explorers of the Americas once called the creature amigo del cristiano, friend of the Christian--an odd name for a lion. That beneficent image was probably owing to Native American beliefs in the beast's role in maintaining harmony between heaven and humankind. The Chickasaw called the feline "the cat of God." And for centuries, puma concolor (a.k.a. mountain lion, cougar, panther, catamount) avoided people. It was an elusive presence: a tail vanishing into the bush, a distant snarl, the rare but startling...