Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...centerpiece of Bela Fleck's music is his banjo. Now, maybe your image of a banjo is something that sits on Granny Smith's lap while she strokes Flash the basset hound and waits for the Confederate boys to boot the Yankees out of Atlanta. There is still hope for redemption, even for those prejudiced few who've let their musical image of the banjo be perverted by Roscoe P. Coltrane and Boss...
...entry into the United States. Since preference is given to families, Dorita and Juan pretend to be married, and pick up a grandfather and a young man whose last name is also Perez. (The film's running joke is that Perez is the most common surname in Spanish, like Smith in English, and that this felicitous commonality is what gives the characters their freedom.) In Miami, meanwhile, Juan's wife Carmela (Anjelica Huston) believes that Juan is never going to arrive and, despite the objections of her brother Angel (Diego Walraff), finds herself attracted to a policeman named John Pirelli...
Keith A. Leahy and Brendon F. Smith, both from the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, now face federal charges of interference with commerce by means of robbery and use of a firearm during a violent crime...
...suspects' attempted robbery of a Brinks armored car delivering cash to the Bank of Boston on Mass. Ave. was foiled March I when a Brinks guard opened fire, wounding Leahy in the arm and Smith in the head and neck. The guard was not wounded...
...real stars of the evening are Andrew Barth, as Iago and Romeo, and Stephanie Smith as Mercutio and Desdemona. It is tempting to imagine them as Viola and Malvolio or Beatrice and Benedick in some future HRDC production. Barth is wonderfully vicious as Iago, and his Romeo, while predictably over-the-top, retains more grace and wit than the buffoonish comedy demands Smith's comic zeal and exuberance make her the focus of every scene she is in; her Mercutio is delightful, and her Desdemona is as perfect a performance of that sadly banal role as could be imagined...