Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart-throb B-movie actor that Priestly plays in Richard Kwietniowski's debut film occupies an equivalent pop-culture status. Ronnie's biggest fan, however, is not the typical hormone-racked female teenager, but rather the established middle-aged English writer, Giles De'Ath, convincingly played by John Hurt. It's a good showcase for Hurt's talents, the pretty performance of Fiona Loewi and the budding skills of Kwietniowski. It also presents an interesting dilemma about how an elderly man reclaims love and youthfulness, but it lacks a sufficient degree of consistent tension and energy to make this...
...possible to have a lot of fun with it. Without the calcifying weight of canonical adulation weighing you down, you can take the interpretation in any direction you please. And if the text is, by consensus, total crap to begin with--well, then, elaborating on it couldn't possibly hurt...
...downsizing programs and other cost-cutting initiatives. We are constantly bombarded with sound bites from boisterous politicians and business executives who praise increased efficiency as the reason America has pulled out of its economic doldrums. The politicians' comments make it easy to ignore the fact that people are inevitably hurt by cost-cutting programs...
...promote Dilbert's World-Totally Nuts, its newest ice cream, the company organized an April Fools' Day promotion whereby ticket holders on certain flights got the average price of a ticket back. And who should rock up as the last passenger for the LAX-to-SFO flight but WILLIAM HURT. Yes, William Hurt, the star who looks most like Dilbert! At first he had to be coaxed into going over to the Dilbert cubicle to accept his prize. But as soon as he realized he was being given a check for $120, Hurt--without the aid of image consultants--asked...
...star has people. He does not uncap a beer or roll his own joint or bother to seduce. His followers are driven by desperate hunger. In the novel's best scene, one of its last, Esther has been terribly hurt in a car crash. Luke appears and orders an ambulance, and they rush into Manhattan toward a hospital. But someone, probably the ambulance driver, has phoned a radio station. As the news gets out, cars fall in behind the ambulance, then ahead. Progress slows, then stops. Luke steps out, climbs on the ambulance, shouts for a clear path. "One song...