Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second compilation of songs from NBC's Thursday-night ratings juggernaut is a collection of somewhat monotonous Savage Garden sound-alike music. While dozing off to depressing, somber tunes about love, relationships and the strife between men and women crooned by famous artists such as Smash Mouth, Duncan Sheik and Lisa Loeb, the highlight of the record is most certainly the sound bites of the dialogue from the series itself. Although these depict the atrocious acting skills of Jennifer Aniston and the like, they break up the droning monotony of the songs...
...Hits from the later years include all five top five singles from their 1986 album Invisible Touch, including the upbeat and pleasing title track, dominated by synthesizer and pounding studio drums and the somewhat sappy yet touching ballad "In Too Deep," in which Phil Collins' conversational vocals become very intimate. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight," a song about sexual desire infused with a little '80s electronic music, is a darker single from the same album. Other predictable songs are here, such as "I Can't Dance" and "ABACAB," the latter whose introductory guitar riff is familiar, even if you didn't know...
...Which leads us back to the present: Standing in front of Panel #2, the only uncovered, respiring portion of the series, the other four hang frozen beside and behind it, shourded in plastic. Panel #2's current blue hues look somewhat dolorous. But Ms. Cohn offers assurance "that the ensemble as a whole still works" even if some unity is lost with the fading. "They still have the solemn resonance that Rothko wanted. A very inspiring ensemble still. Yes, they are damaged, but no, they are not wrecked...
...designed interiors--the entire film was shot using locations in the Dardennes' hometown of Seraing, Belgium--or any other ornaments. The photography is dominated by shaky hand-held camera-work, lighting is sparsely natural and casting is reduced to four principal actors. It is initially frustrating and somewhat trying to a North American audience, used as we are to seeing the glossy celluloid images associated with high production values. Here we get grainy and bleached images. Similarly, no music accompanies the narrative to underscore the tension and wrenching moments; all we are given is the sound of gravelly footsteps, running...
...Starbucks was in the bathroom at a branch of the coffee chain and somehow managed to become stuck, if you get my meaning, in between the toilet and seat. (I'm somewhat embarrassed even to be recounting or summarizing this story.) As a result of the incident which led to his injury, he has filed suit against Starbucks. Some accounts say he and his wife may now be unable to have children. He reportedly wants $1 million for himself--and another $500,000 for her. (Why does she get only half what he gets? Go figure...