Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe there is an ironclad rule about memorials at Harvard," said Jack P. Reardon Jr. '60, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...lost in the first act. Just when you thought things were as complex as they were going to get, in come Jack Point (Doug Miller '96) and Elsie Maynard (Heidi Brown '99), a couple of charming strolling singers. Elsie agrees to marry Fairfax--she can't resist the hundred crowns offered--and, of course, Point cares for Elsie, but he hasn't declared himself to her. Their duets are the best thing about the show, hands down. Brown has a wonderful voice, powerful and elegant. Miller's adorable song and dance numbers win the audience over in no time...
...first day went surprisingly well, said Jack Cahill, general manager of the Loker Commons...
Hill's largest invention, one entirely in keeping with his apparent determination to make the most radically revisionist western ever, is a backstory shared by Wild Bill and Jack McCall (David Arquette), who history teaches us brought the gunman's career to an end by shooting him in the back. Seems that the former loved and rather crassly left a decent woman named Susannah Moore (the lovely Diane Lane). Seems McCall is her child by a previous liaison. Seems Hill has seen too many movies in which young western gunmen are anachronistically portrayed as if they were modern juvenile delinquents...
...maybe not. Maybe Jack's implosive ambivalence--rage and cowardice are constantly, even comically, at war in him--can also be read as the bold and loopy signature of this crammed, darkly jostling movie, the almost saving gracelessness of which lies in the utter, doubtless misplaced, passion with which it is realized...