Word: helling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robin Williams, fresh from his Academy Award, 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 her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams...
Speaking of James Woods, how invaluable is he to a project like this? Sporting his grim been-to-hell-and-back look, Woods is filled with an inner intensity that boils out onto the screen. Clad in a leather jacket and Ray Ban sunglasses, unflinching when an entire building blows up behind him, Woods brings the necessary mix of swagger, cool bravado, fearlessness and tightly-coiled anger to the role of Jack Crow. It's a good thing, too, since the supporting cast does not add much. Thomas Ian Griffith makes for a striking, if rather dull, villain, leering savagely...
...Cake says, "Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell." Well, maybe so. But they take a little bit of everything and make music with a fresh and original perspective--something rare and beautiful in the music industry. This band has always been a little different from everyone else, in a wonderful way. Don't ever call them standard or normal. At least, not yet. Raw energy and anger were more evident in earlier Cake music. Their two most widely-known songs, "The Distance" and "I Will Survive," stood out and were filled with intensity. Not so with this album...
...doesn't matter if it's dark outside," Curly points out, "it's dark down there anyway". Compensation is just for this sunless travail. According to some workers at the South Station tunnel site, "We get paid $90,000 a year and that's probably a hell of a lot more than you'll get paid out of Harvard." The engineer working at the hole next door to the bus station talks about his contract, which began 16 months ago. "I work on structure here, and the reason this project is taking longer than anything else like it is because...
Granted it's not on the First Night's curriculum, but Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronzione di Poppea may still be one hell of a cultural experience. Forego a night at the Grille and hustle over to the Agassiz for the Harvard-Radcliffe Early Music Society and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra's presention of Monteverdi's final opera 8 p.m., Agassiz Theater, Radcliffe Yard. Tickets...