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...insertion of a "lollipop" popping noise is perfect for the song's mood. With a sound that befits Hole's Courtney Love more than McLachlan, "Ice" is her unsuccessful attempt to work an electric guitar with high amp into her music. The bass of McLachlan's confidante Pierre Marchand is present, to good effect, but McLachlan's electric guitar proves distracting and overpowers Sarah at points...
Throughout the album, McLachlan relies on the instrumentals of Pierre Marchand as the other main component evident on "Ice," where Marchand's bass and the saxophone of Michel Dubeau play mirror to McLachlan's voice. Marchand's support is also key on "Elsewhere," a beautiful declaration of the power of love, with the line "I believe this is heaven to no one else but me" multi-tracked over McLachlan's own vocal harmonies, guitars and piano. It is Marchand who adds the synthesizer and drum machines that round out McLachlan's sound, giving her the freedom to engage...
Some major talent is squandered on this intermittently congenial exercise, and the biggest name, four-time Emmy winner Nancy Marchand (Lou Grant), very nearly redeems the event. In the first piece she is the pseudo seer, caked in makeup and swathed in fading Gypsy finery but maintaining an inner core of steely rage. Her climactic revelations, hokey on the page, sound torn from the depths of a great and dangerous soul. She has less to do in Black Comedy, but as a spinster liberated in the dark -- literally -- to indulge dreamy fantasies of booze and sex, she melds exquisite comic...
WHAT A DREAM CAST: ROGER REES IN HIS first New York theater role since he won the Tony for Nicholas Nickleby, as a British aristocrat turned Southern California hustler; TV stars Nancy Marchand of Lou Grant, double-cast as his London mother and his Los Angeles boss, and Jean Smart of Designing Women, as both of his abused wives. What a pity that promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz, 30, who in THE END OF THE DAY parallels Old World and New World corruption from charity medical wards to drug dealing to corporate raiding, can't stitch together a coherent narrative...
...Marchand would not say why Stuart had become a suspect, but he said "there's a lot more to the story...