Word: maned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MELVIN PICKS UP in the desert doesn't. With a wild mane of white hair and a beard to match, he has obviously given up on society, checked out. Yet in their conversation in Melvin's truck--the first scene of the movie--the bum emerges as more than a derelict. Melvin wants to sing Christmas carols; his guest doesn't. He is ungracious, cold and strangely snide for a man of such decrepit circumstance...
...novel survives the weakness of its hero because Percy is as genial and hu mane as Will is obsessed. While the character castigates the world, his creator renders it with loving care. The Second Coming engages the senses as well as the mind, hectoring sometimes, but entertaining...
...that Frank Zappa with the shaggy mane and the gleaming sax? Nope, it's Paul McCartney, as he appears in a video-taped film in which he plays, seemingly all at once, six different instruments in ten musical guises. The show is a promo for McCartney II, a new album that features guess who on every instrumental track. The old Beatles will never reunite, says McCartney: "The others don't seem keen enough." Ah, but why reassemble the fabulous four when one can be cloned into...
Catholics in Zaïre are also "Africanizing" the liturgy in ways marked by high church attendance and great zeal. At a typical Mass the young priest dons a zebra's mane headdress while assistants, men and women alike, clap and shuffle around the altar to the throbbing of drums and an occasional shrill scream of religious ecstasy. The congregation swings, sings lustily and sways with the rhythms. "The Latin rite is too impersonal for Africans," the priest explains. "The Zaïreans' Mass comes from the heart." Clergy were chilled a bit when John Paul insisted...
Davis nearly compensates for this lapse in Ellen Whitcombe's screenplay. With her untamed chestnut mane and snapping blue eyes, Davis is unforgettable as the willful Sybylla. Rarely has an actor brought such a unique vitality and integrity to the screen. In a script without a lot of dialogue, Davis delivers every line with a vigor that imbues her character with a complexity and depth that is not written into the script. She moves as if she were on the stage--no action is taken for granted. Davis ignites her portrayal of Sybylla with an uncompromising zest, a passion...