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Gerald Arpino, co-founder and artistic director of The Joffrey Ballet, conceived and directed this ferocious full-length rock ballet. Prince gave permission for the company to use the highly respected troupe perform for the first time. Actively involved in the collaboration, Prince composed a specially extended version of "Thunder" of The Joffrey...

Author: By Clarissa A. Bonanno, | Title: Princely ballet | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...recurring Cruise character (earnest, cocky young man who gets the girl), Cruise said he feels that all of the characters he has played are very different; he stressed the extra preparation he has given to creating them. He learned how to drive a race car for "Days of Thunder," (his first film with his wife, Nicole Kidman), learned to flip bottles for his role as a cheeky bartender in "Cocktail," was coached on his Irish brogue for "Far and Away," (his second film with Kidman) and studied trial law (not at Harvard) for "A Few Good...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: All Life Is a Boat, And Tom's Cruisin' | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

Finney's fable has passed the time test (40 years is forever in pop culture), having been filmed twice as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Don Siegel in 1956 and Philip Kaufman in 1978. The first movie, punctuating California's small-town sunniness with the thunder of deadpan mobocracy, became a cult classic. Both pictures met the horror-movie challenge: they kept moviegoers up all night, ashiver with apprehension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleepless and Skedaddle | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

Hazenberg hails from Thunder Bay, Ontario, thesame hometown as Paul Shaffer, David Letterman'sband leader

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Grad Student Wins Big on `Jeopardy!' | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

...language is blatant and sometimes crass. In this short play, it is a paradox that the dialogue should seem to drag on so uselessly, while the action seems to thunder on like machine-gun fire. This slaughters both the characters and the play. In rhythmic but nonsensical spurts, so much anger builds up in these women that they start to chant "BASTARD MEN! BASTARD MEN!" in an eery, Brave New World-like crescendo, and do it more than once. The fact that boys are made of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails" is hissed visciously from the tongues...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: A Brave New World At the Loeb Ex | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

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