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...JAPAN: Def Leppard, the ultimate power balladeers of the '80s, toured with wild success in Britain, the U.S. and Japan in the summers of '86, '87 and '88. This year the group has a lower-key itinerary: 50 gigs with Styx throughout the U.S. and Canada...
...more serious ambition undermines the domestic drama that War of the Worlds also wants to be. In a land with millions of humans vaporized by alien rays, with the Hudson River turned into the Styx, awash in corpses--in such a world, the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans. Yet we are meant to care for Ray (Cruise), his teenage son (Justin Chatwin) and young daughter (Dakota Fanning)--natural antagonists forced together by disaster. How do three members of a broken family behave during an alien invasion? Exactly the way they...
...Jeremy Irons is the melancholy, homoerotic Antonio, and the American Lynn Collins an efficient Portia, in what we may call the Al Pacino Merchant of Venice. Director Michael Radford, going heavily for brooding atmosphere, has shrouded the canal town in dank mists until the Adriatic could be the river Styx. He has also wrapped the play in historical perspective, noting the sorry plight of Jews in 1596 Venice. This makes Shylock's demand for a pound of Christian flesh his righteous revenge for all the spittle and slander he has absorbed. Pacino emphasizes Shylock's gnomish outsider status: the victim...
...Nearby is the Styx Valley, where loggers and protesters argue over stands of E. regnans earmarked for woodchipping, and the Wilderness Society conducts tours along logging roads. Many timber workers pass through Niven's door, but in past months it's tourists who've been flocking to stay. They come, says Niven, "because they have to see the forest before it disappears." After this weekend, they may not have to be in such a rush...
...recipe for a new sound that is not quite new at all: soulful BoysIIMen harmony without quite so much harmony, guitars that used to be reserved for Styx cover-bands, and pop sensibilities that seem stuck in adult contemporary. Sadly, what results from this recipe is Dakota Moon, whose second album A Place to Land combines everything but does nothing well. Vocals that could reach heights in “So Good for You” become a falsetto mess. “Looking for a Place to Land” contains a catchy hook, but the rest...