Word: stunners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staging is crisp and energetic, with well-drilled ensemble work and a nifty reproduction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. James Carpinello, as Tony, doesn't have a voice to swoon over, but he's got the moves, while Orfeh (just the one name, thank you) is a husky-voiced stunner as Annette, the good girl who wants to be bad. There's some grit along with the glitz--a guy commits suicide, a girl is gang-banged in the backseat of a car, and the hero's big victory is spoiled by the fact that he doesn't deserve...
...much of a pro wrestling fan as the next person. When the Rock kicked out of a Stone Cold Stunner on a two-count in the evening's championship match, I high-fived my friend Andy in amazement and excitement...
...understands all. In the best of the films, Decalogue, Six (Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery)--also released as the feature-length A Short Film About Love--a young man spies through a telescope on the sexually active stunner across the way. When she learns of his rank love, she is furious; to teach him a lesson she forces upon him the banquet of her sexual favors. Contact shames him; he runs home and slashes his wrists. Visiting his home, she peers through the telescope and sees an eerie vision: herself, as the adoring boy saw her. The image overwhelms...
...Green kicker Dave Regula added three field goals as Dartmouth stayed alive after its stunner shutout loss to Harvard. Dartmouth will host Brown Saturday in a win-with-help situation...
Roper is issued a regulation villain (Michael Wincott, whose menacing baritone was used to better effect in the recent Jim Jarmusch corpse opera Dead Man) and a girlfriend in peril (British stunner Carmen Ejogo). A shame the star wasn't given a character to play, witty dialogue to speak or clever plot twists to unravel. But though Roper is often at gunpoint, Murphy wasn't when he agreed to make Metro. In his bumpy tryst with filmgoers, how long will he make us wait for another Nutty Professor? How long until we can love Eddie again...