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...senior year of high school at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, he got one line in Mystic Pizza. He did theater during his first year here at Harvard. Sophomore year he landed a role in Rising Son, a cable TV movie starring Brian Dennehy and Piper Laurie. Now, this fall, with the release of School Ties, a film about bigotry in an upper class boarding school, one wonders if Damon has been seduced by the trappings of success...
...Lugosi's double in Plan 9, who is a head taller than the star (who died during the filming) and must cover his face with a cape; to the thespian exertions of 400-lb. ex-wrestler Tor Johnson in Night of the Ghouls; to the rantings of TV mystic Criswell in the 1965 nudie horror musical Orgy of the Dead ("Torture! Torture! It pleasures...
...Seventh Seal abound. The film is shot entirely on soundstages designed by Santo Loquasto. Narrow cobblestone streets, gaslights and footbridges enhance the gloomy atmosphere. Shimmery ponds and a fake night sky further increase the mood and the comedy. Allen establishes the tone of the picture when a mystic (Charles Cragin), who uses his sense of smell to sniff out the strangler, leads to a torch-bearing mob through the winding streets...
...alone in our credulity. In China a large percentage of the public visits "Qi Gong" hospitals for diagnosis and treatment by a mystic who never touches them; he merely waves his hands about. If a patient is in a remote location and cannot visit an expert in person, he merely mails a slip of paper with his name written on it, and the practitioner performs both the diagnosis and the cure -- an exotic hand-and-body dance designed to "re-establish the balance of yin and yang" -- from any distance away. Thousands of visitors pour into the Philippine Islands...
...great erotic epiphany. And there is a new kind of sorcery too. Springsteen ends Lucky Town with the eerie spirituality of My Beautiful Reward, which is a unique combination of a Van Morrison religious song and a Native American peyote dream. It's a step into the mystic, a new direction. Springsteen's reborn and running again...