Word: hefted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moby Dick in extremis. The brilliantly realized visual effects are invisible and persuasive. The digitized water looks like real water; the computer blobs look like human beings tumbling down to their deaths from the severed ship's nearly vertical stern. But the narrative events that should add emotional heft are substandard action tropes: kids in jeopardy, bad guys menacing pretty women, Jack manacled to a water pipe. "I'll just wait here," he says gamely, and idiotically, as Rose runs for help...
...reevaluate his life after a visit with his AIDS-infected best friend (Robert Downey Jr.) and a one night stand with a beautiful rocket scientist (Nastassja Kinski). Though it shows some intelligence in dealing with issues of loss and adultery, Mike Figgis' latest effort lacks the complexity and emotional heft of Leaving Las Vegas. What redeems the sketchy script just enough to make the film bearable is Figgis' jazzy direction and a nuanced performance by Snipes...
...make that happen, Idei is rumbling through Sony's management ranks like a temblor. He has already brought down Sony's board of directors, reducing its size while adding three outsiders. Last week the company announced another restructuring, giving more heft to its broadcasting business and creating a new company called Digital Network Solutions Co. Catchy...
...best films of 1995 because it achieved a refreshing balance between pulp tragedy and true-love lyricism. Although his follow-up One Night Stand has much in common thematically with Leaving Las Vegas, and once again showcases Figgis' stylish direction, it lacks the earlier film's complexity and emotional heft (not to mention a powerhouse performance from a great actor like Nicolas Cage...
...makes its debut this week, will battle it out for viewers and good stories with no fewer than five other TV newsmagazines that are already cramping network television's prime-time schedule. If, during his 15-year tenure on the Today show, Gumbel did not always display the intellectual heft or consistent coolheadedness of such newsmen as Tim Russert or Ted Koppel (the interviewer with whom he is too often favorably compared), he did manage to brand himself as television's most engagingly willful journalist. And beyond offering the intense presence of Gumbel, Public Eye will distinguish itself...