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...Julia Roberts Emerging unscathed from a rumor-filled pause in her career, Roberts, last seen in Hook in 1991, returned to the screen in The Pelican Brief, which opened huge in December. Earlier, in a spectacularly surprising and appealing move, she wed Lyle Lovett, music's quirkiest and most talented un-hunk...
...Sunset Boulevard. Disappointing in London, where it played as a tragedy, Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest has been reborn in Los Angeles as a gothic comedy. Glenn Close dispels her chilly screen persona as a manipulative and shamelessly camp-melodramatic bygone movie queen, a legend in her own mind. John Napier's parvenu palazzo set is the grandest and wittiest of the British megamusical...
...amounted to a gigantic act of pained remembrance. Experience the Holocaust, in a museum or a movie. Look clearly at Jack Kennedy, or recycle Teddy into pulp. Watch the Great Depression in four weekly installments. Today those who forget the past are condemned to relive it -- on the big screen or small. It is also salutary to recall 1993's failings: Mitch Williams in the World Series, Chevy Chase on late-night TV, Michael Jackson in the court of public $ opinion. Everyone, after all, builds a future on a resolve not to repeat old blunders. May we all profit from...
...positive energy and enthusiastic solicitation of audience participation, the show had a few flaws. The song “The Ice Storm” saw a drab, misguided instrumental jam, which brought down the crowd’s energy; the jam, though, was made less boring by the backdrop screen turned into a starry sky with swirling white lights. An out-of-key one-off vocal performance of “Hold Yr Terror Close” from drummer Taylor-Fukami was out of place in the high-energy set. Though Taylor-Fukami’s singing was disappointing...
...Road to Perdition”), it dances around the subject of violence. As it follows the action of the first Gulf War, we sense chaos indirectly. We see bomb blasts reflected through windows; we watch smoke rise above the bodies of Iraqi civilians, recently burnt off-screen. This violence is filtered through the eyes of narrator Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), the everyman U.S. Marine, or “jarhead,” whose war autobiography this movie adapts. While training, Swofford is selected to join an elite scout unit, and he trades in his girlfriend for a sniper rifle...