Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somehow, I seem to be the only one in the whole huddled mass of worn, jaded travelers that shuttles routinely from city to city who still seems excited about air travel. Mention "Orville and Wilbur," and most people think of a popcorn zealot and a talkative pig. I'm the only one who can't forget--and who can't take flying for granted...
...would really hate air travel, if it weren't for the flying part. I'm claustrophobic, I don't like heights, and I despise TV dinners. I'm too short to fit right in airplane seats; my neck always winds up in that indentation where the small of your back is supposed...
...clever boy in a strange toga, who introduces us to his family: a rich, overly-educated Viennese household. It is the boy who narrates this film of his life, accompanied by a green fuzzy Martian (Nabil Shaban) who insists on engaging the precocious child in philosophical discussion. Together they travel to England and we watch Ludwig's intellectual development from an imaginative, over-stimulated youth into a sober, work-obsessed pupil of Bertrand Russell (Micheal Gough) and an awkward frequenter of the oh-so-intellectually fashionable Bloomsbury crowd, including the lovely Lady Ottoline Morrell (Tilda Swinton...
...smilingly on opening night. What The Visitors has is a solid farce premise (a 12th century knight and his servant are magically stranded in today's French suburbs), a toilet-bowl sense of humor and a few tricks swiped from Hollywood: breakneck pace and gaudy visual effects. The time-travel buffoonery of Encino Man meets Ghostbusters' technical sorcery. En France...
...Centralia, Illinois, where they can board the City of New Orleans. Ticket offices have been closed at 15 stations across the U.S., including Delray Beach, Florida, and Amsterdam, New York. Trains will still stop at these locations, but tickets must be purchased at other Amtrak stations or travel agencies...