Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What Dreams May Come, released last month to fair box-office returns and featuring Robin Williams as a doctor who dies and goes to heaven and then journeys to hell to rescue his wife. And yes, that makes a trend: unintentionally goofy metaphysical romances about death are the volcano movies...
...towns like the once thriving community of Posoltega, nestled on rich soil beneath the Casitas Volcano in Nicaragua's mountainous northwest, Mitch was the apocalypse. Close to noon on Oct. 30, after the hurricane had dumped three days of rain into Casitas's crater, the mountainside burst with what villagers described as the angry roar of a jetliner. It hurled mud, water and rock onto Posoltega's rooftops, "a terrible, towering wall that just fell out of the clouds," says Santo Diaz, 24. Diaz gathered his elderly father, mother, sister and two brothers to escape--but the avalanche claimed them...
...work of art is apt to pale to invisibility beside those neon signs and huge, crass, mock-Hellenistic sculptures. Nothing a mere environmental sculptor could make would have much luck in drawing the eye away from, say, the outside of the Mirage, with its foaming waterfalls and its artificial volcano that erupts on a regular schedule after dusk, except when (a sign informs you) the weather is "inclement," a condition that will be signaled by a red warning light in case you didn't feel the rain on your head...
...news first: Anne Heche is a completely persuasive object for Harrison Ford's (or any other male heterosexual's) attentions. Actually, this is no news at all--not to anyone who has seen her work in movies as various as Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog and Volcano. In them Heche established the fact that she's good in crises, vulnerable yet capable, not someone the ravening male ego can walk all over, yet supportive when the crunch comes...
...always there to fight the bad monsters. At the end of one movie, a small boy waved farewell, plaintively calling, "Godzilla. Thanks a lot." The beast acknowledged him in a silent goodbye. It touched my heart. And in Godzilla 85, when the beast was lured into a volcano, I cried and thought, This cannot be the end of Godzilla! Now Hollywood has created a real monster--a souped-up, emotionless, dinosaur-like killing machine sans the charisma of the original Godzilla. Shame on you, Hollywood! What's next? A sequel to E.T. with the lovable little alien transformed into...