Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JACOB'S LADDER. Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is seeing things: whirling heads, killer cars, villains everywhere. Is he a conspiracy victim? Or is he dead? And if so, will any moviegoer care? Adrian Lyne's revved-up spook show plays like a Twilight Zone episode on steroids...
...still when his widow controls many of the rights to his works and image and remains a controversial figure in his story. For those reasons, Buddy bears a striking resemblance to the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, including a tendency to make saints of the singer and his wife and cartoon cads of almost everyone else. The real reason for telling Holly's story again is as an excuse for a rock concert...
When he is not selling ads, Dick plays fierce games of golf and tennis, and each fall he roots for the Green Bay Packers. His favorite singer: Willie Nelson. That is altogether fitting, because in his new job Dick is again calling on customers, loving every minute of being on the road again...
...lead singer of Guns 'N' Roses was arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly coshing a female neighbor over the head with a wine bottle. She said she complained to Rose about his loud stereo and was then attacked. She was not seriously hurt. Rose denies taking a swing...
...Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is on a permanent bad-drug trip. This is conveyed in the hallucinatory manner of terrible 1960s movies. It turns out that the drug was administered to him, without his consent, by the government. The passages where this information is vouchsafed remind us of '70s paranoid thrillers. Since the drug was given to him in Vietnam (it was supposed to make everyone in his Army unit more aggressive), we are reminded of the '80s effort to come to terms with the war. And since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife...