Word: singings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world as we knew it has changed forever, and the American Century looks to conclude with a huge party, a cancan line of irrepressible bankers and impossibly rich computer nerds dancing on the grave of the business cycle, while politicians of all kinds sing the praises of a new economy that might let them be re-elected forever and ever, as long as people keep voting their pocketbook. So now what...
HAVANA: So that was Christmas. For the first time in 28 years, Cubans had a whole day off to sing, dance, feast and pray in celebration of the birth of baby Jesus -- all thanks to the power of the Pope. After yanking the holiday in 1969, purportedly because it interfered with the sugar harvest, Fidel Castro reinstated it this year at the urging of Pope John Paul in advance of his visit Jan. 21-25. Has the leader of the Western Hemisphere's only semi-Stalinist state finally seen the light...
Nicholson has the most prominent part, and makes it sing wickedly. Kinnear (born two days after Hunt) proves his charming turn in Sabrina was no fluke. And as Verdell, a Brussels griffon named Jill is a magnificent actor, even stealing a big crying scene from the wily Nicholson. But Hunt is the big-screen revelation, playing against her Jamie type while locating in Carol some of that same frazzled drive. Here, Hunt had to deglamourize her image--give herself a makeunder. It's not just that Carol's hair is dark and lifelessly curly; work and worry have lent...
...really makes it all work is Rebecca Schull as Rimes' grandmother. Tender, bright, steady, Schull succeeds in making you actually care whether Grandma Teeden pulls through. In a flashback she visits the Rimes character (played here by a little girl) in the hospital, and when they begin to sing Amazing Grace, the susceptible viewer will begin to blubber. Of course, if it is attached like a parasite to Amazing Grace, any scene will be moving, but here the results are earned...
...three words: volume (a big voice), volume (three albums in 18 months), volume (saturation marketing by Curb). The new CD--12 songs of inspiration, from The Rose to God Bless America--rarely unleashes Rimes' gloriously freaky soprano; at times she sounds intimidated, like a child called on to sing before stern church elders. Only in an a cappella National Anthem does she let loose the trills and glissandi; but, really, is that a cut you'll want to play...