Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nonfiction film, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, is a testimony to the rest of our lives. A one-line summary of the film: it's about four guys who love their jobs. Five if you count Morris, who has built a unique career on his quirky metadocumentaries (Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time). He is just the filmmaker to find four kindred spirits, united only in their fascination with pursuits that have something to do with animals. They might be anyone with the genial obsession to get to the office a half-hour early...
...trouble with making an extraordinary film is the follow-up--hence the bombastic promotion of A Life Less Ordinary. Set in America this time around, it tells the story of a match made in heaven. Literally. Replete with gun-toting angels, phone conversations with God (a charming uncredited cameo by Sean Connery), botched bank robberies, psychotic dentists, Cameron Diaz, and a lot of guns, the film looks to be a fresh, funny romp around some of the weirder extremities of multi-genre filmmaking...
...Holland. It proves rather clearly that the Pixies were meant for the studio. On top of that, it contains several lower-quality repeats of many irritating tracks on the first CD of Death to the Pixies. How many times do I need to hear "This Monkey Gone to Heaven"? Even Black Francis sounds disinterested. The other songs on this disc, similar to the first, are truncated, with many cuts halving the length of the original version. According to those subtle folks at 4AD, "this collection shows why the Pixies were one of the most respected, acclaimed and influential rocks bands...
...visage of the Teamster leader who disappeared 22 years ago. Perhaps even more important, as almost daily disclosures of scandal cripple the 1.4 million-member union, Hoffa has a last name that could catapult him to the union's presidency. "My father must be smiling down from heaven today," he says...
...October 2 issue of The Crimson contains a story on Melanie Thernstrom's book about the Dunster House murder-suicide, Halfway Heaven. In passing, the article repeats a charge made in a much earlier Crimson article, to the effect that as a reporter Thernstrom used her position as a (former) Harvard instructor to gain access to confidential information...