Word: lovelorning
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...Postcards from the Edge, has opened big. It features Fisher's screenplay directed by Mike Nichols, with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as the star-worn daughter and mother. There is also a new paperback edition of her novel to add to the media jet stream. And Fisher's lovelorn modern romance, Surrender the Pink, has just been published...
...Baerwald is now honing a screenplay on which he collaborated with Sean Penn. He is also touring with a fine, fierce new band. They lay down a carbolic concert that may eventually include the exquisite Hello Mary, a piece of lovelorn virtuosity whose lyrics consist entirely of one end of an overheard phone conversation: "Heard you had a son/ Don't remember his name/ That's a really nice name/ I just called/ To check and see/ If my memory's correct/ And you mean a thing to me." The song sounds so heartfelt it almost seems...
...beer-barrel physique and pliant pudding face, Goodman, 37, has become Hollywood's hottest character actor. He has the nimble, dancer-like grace of such portly clowns as Oliver Hardy and Jackie Gleason, anchored by a straight-from-the-heartland believability. After a sweetly engaging turn as a lovelorn Texan in David Byrne's True Stories, he literally burst onto the scene in the 1987 comedy Raising Arizona, playing an escaping convict who, drenched in mud, erupts from the ground with a roar. He shone again, and added new shadings, as an over-the-hill athlete reliving past glories...
...include a quirky contract killer seemingly borrowed from Elmore Leonard; and the underlying politics focuses as much on Pinochet's Chile as on the grievances of tribes whose ancestral graves are plundered for museum displays. But the deftly manipulated plot reunites Hillerman's detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, lovelorn men who bury grief in stubborn pursuit of moral order. Their tracking skills and non-Anglo reasoning still prove vital to averting further crime. In place of breathtaking evocations of light and landscape, Hillerman touchingly portrays the outdoorsmen's dislocation amid subways, crowds and unneighborly indifference...
MISS FIRECRACKER. Holly Hunter reprises her stage role as a lovelorn orphan determined to win a beauty contest. Mary Steenburgen and Alfre Woodard also shine in Beth Henley's comedy about the danger of holding on to youthful dreams and the liberating effect of letting them...