Word: thunderation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...storm of headlines stole the thunder from the campaign for Britain's April 9 general election. That the split also upstaged news about the nation's deepest slump since World War II demonstrated one value of the House of Windsor today: as a distraction. At a time of anguish over Britain's national direction, a Hollywood-style cult of celebrity surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's offspring has endowed the royal clan with a more modern relevancy. The Queen's second son and his wayward wife provided everything in the way of gossip-page dramatics that their 1986 wedding seemed...
...Thunder on the Right...
...Thunder forward falls flat on the turf aftera collision. A Blazer jumps on his back, steppingon the visitor to keep him prone, and scoops upthe ball. One quick shot later, and the Blazershave narrowed the gap. No replays in the pressbox, though. This is the only Garden sports eventwhere the complimentary TVs are kept locked...
John Williams' score, all thunder, lightning and self-importance, reinforces the film's charmlessness, and Hoffman's Hook emblematizes it. He's broody and self-absorbed, utterly gleeless in his villainy. But then even Robin Williams, that freest of comic spirits, never has a truly antic moment. Roberts, as Tinkerbell, is luckier than her co-stars. Her character has no obligation to try to fill the already overstuffed screen. Couldn't possibly do it anyway, since she's only a wee little fairy, a couple of inches tall. But Roberts is ingenuous, unaffected and what Hook is only some...
...Dead). Give it, while you're at it, credit for being unapologetically harsh, nasty, ironic and really rather terrific. Zevon's as tough as a film-noir hero; when he turns tender, it's only so you can better hear the sound of doom coming up like thunder...