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...year-old boy, Wallace's godson, really has a powerful healing gift. The lad, it appears, lays on not merely hands but sexual parts to effect his cures and in this way seems to have worked wonders with the god-daughter, an elderly gay houseguest and a sick mare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIPPO CRITICAL | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

Lidia (Lexi Randall) and her younger brother Stu (Elijah Wood) have it rough. Mom (Mare Winningham) has to be the family glue, because Dad (Kevin Costner) has returned from Vietnam damaged and crushed. By most standards, he is a failure, so he pours his ambitions into his kids, who think he's a saint. "Maybe he died in that war," one of them says, "and God sent him back to us for one last visit." If so, it is to supervise, by remote control, a replay of his and America's Vietnam trauma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Home Front | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...father (Gene Hackman): put your trust in blood kin and in the law. What Earp sees in his brothers is impossible to say, since they are so poorly particularized -- and encumbered with unpleasantly fractious wives to boot. Wyatt himself tolerates a thoroughly depressing relationship with a common-law wife (Mare Winningham), as they all lurch querulously toward the legendary gunfight with another extended family at the O.K. Corral. The exact nature of the quarrel between the Earps and Ike Clanton's crowd is never satisfactorily explained. Like almost everything else in this fragmented and ambiguous movie, it just sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Shoot-Out At the Zz | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...report, which was compiled by state task force, documented numerous experiments during the 1940s, '50s and '60s in which Harvard researchers fed unwitting retarded children radioactive isotopes. The task force concluded that the tests violated the "fundamental human rights" of the experiment subjects. But the night mare may not be completely over...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Cold War Radiation Tests On Children Haunt Harvard | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...would be in a position to prevent any of the Pentagon's ire from hitting close to home. "He's always been antimilitary, but right now we're looking at him as one of our last hopes to save the installation," says Mark Hutchings, a fire inspector at the Mare Island Naval Complex shipyard in Vallejo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Close to Home | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

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