Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RECUPERATING. Michael Jackson, 25, rock-soul superstar; from an 80-minute laser surgical procedure to remove a palm-size patch of scalp tissue scarred from burns received while he was making a TV commercial last January; in Culver City, Calif. Healthy, hair-growing tissue was drawn across the area and stitched in place...
...Alaska Pinter has taken a TV-movie disease-of-the-week subject and alchemized it into a searing, sympathetic portrait of a lost soul who must seek solace in the dreams and embarrassments of an idyllic girlhood. Wiest's performance is an astonishment. Every word she speaks rings with both a child's self-possession and a flinty woman's solitude; each step she takes is as shaky as an inebriate's on a tightrope in a high wind. And Pinter, by daring to be accessible, has fashioned a small miracle of a play...
...means infallible. At one point he cannot resist beginning to sketch a simplistic, two-toned play about a milk truck and a coal truck. Often, too, he is so ready to find himself guilty of every kind of moral inattention and to punish himself unsparingly that his soul searching comes to resemble breast beating. Yet Fugard's relentless self-scrutiny guards him from the traps of self-indulgence. "Do I pose?" he asks himself. "I don't think so-but I'm very given to tears...
Barclay brings to his task of destroying Tucker the moral confidence of a damned soul and the physical recklessness of an arrogant intellectual. Barclay knows that...
Robin Williams, who seems to have absorbed something of the Russian soul while acquiring a persuasive Russian accent, is excellent. He provides all the sweetness any picture needs. One keeps hoping Mazursky and Co-Scenarist Leon Capetanos will introduce some contrasting flavors. Until Vladimir encounters some afterthought muggers, everyone he meets is unfailingly helpful and kind; he has no difficulty finding jobs, an apartment, friends of both sexes. Yet every fairy tale needs to have a wicked witch; her broomstick is always useful as a lever to pry us upright in our seats and as a goad to keep...