Word: volcanoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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OLVESTON, Montserrat: Faced with a volcano ready to blow and a population clamoring to go, Montserrat's British Governor Frank Savage found his plush mansion surrounded by hundreds of screaming protestors today...
...Time to clean house! This seems to be the thinking of ANNE HECHE, who, with the ink still smudgeable on her contract to play the love interest of Harrison Ford in 6 Days/7 Nights, fired Endeavor, the agency that got her that job, as well as roles in movies (Volcano and Donnie Brasco) that made her this week's actress to moon over. Reason? Endeavor was opposed to her announcing in PEOPLE that she is gay and having a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, who only recently stepped out of the armoire herself. Heche has signed with more like-minded agents...
...right, nobody cares. You just want to see the volcano that ate L.A. If so, you'll have a hell-lava time...
Just one more reason not to live in Los Angeles. It seems there's an active volcano under Wilshire Boulevard, and is it steamed! It blows spitballs of lava up through manhole covers. It sends fire chunks into the sky, as if in a malefic Disney World spectacle, and has them land on prime Beverly Hills real estate. It not only exhales scalding air, it also sucks it back in. This monster, writhing undead in its coffin, has a personality. It even growls, basso profundo; imagine Barry White slowly murmuring "Booo...
...pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a premillennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies. Last year Twister; this fall The Flood. In February, Dante's Peak sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson's Volcano has man tamper in God's domain--by daring to build a subway in L.A. The script, by Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray, thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation...