Word: jewell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Closer to home, problems in the undergraduate experience at Harvard kept cropping up. Committee members firmly believed that the College was the "crown jewel" of the University, and thus were troubled by the issues faculty and administrators kept raising: classes were too big, there weren't enough faculty, housing was overcrowded, and the sciences seemed to be falling by the wayside. Finally, it became clear to the committee members that Harvard had outgrown Cambridge. Over the next half-century, Harvard would need to shift across the river to land purchased in Allston, and the 27th president needed to lead...
...woman known only as Jewel (a stunning Liv Tyler) is capable of being all things to all men. Luckily, only three of them are significantly present in One Night at McCool's. If she had had any more boys to toy with, this movie might have turned into a sobering study in multiple-personality disorder. Instead, it remains a sort of low-rent Rashomon that is the smartest, funniest, most cleverly structured comedy of the year...
...Jewel appears to us--and to Randy (Matt Dillon), the slacker barkeep at the film's eponymous drinking establishment--as a simple material girl. He rescues her from an apparent rape attempt, takes her home to his fixer-upper and soon finds himself innocently abetting two murders...
Detective Dehling (John Goodman), investigating those deaths, sees Jewel somewhat differently. To him she symbolizes purity, and reminds him of his tragically deceased wife. Why, Jewel even seems to have access to his beloved's linguine recipe. She also has access to the darkest desires of Randy's cousin Carl (a particularly delirious Paul Reiser), an up-and-coming lawyer in need of a dominatrix, a role at which Jewel proves--perhaps not so surprisingly--remarkably adept...
Each of these characters tells his story to an avid listener: Randy to the hitman (Michael Douglas, who also produced the movie) he has hired to rid himself of Jewel; Dehling to his brother (Richard Jenkins), who is a priest; Carl to a psychiatrist (Reba McEntire)--wow, this is a well-cast movie. But none of them can do much more than offer sympathy for the poor dopes' entrapments. For what is possibly the funniest thing about McCool's is how easily the men fall into Jewel's clutches...