Word: voodoos
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...Angel Heart is that it has greater ambitions than merely updating this genre. It wants to combine The Maltese Falcon with the psychological and intellectual thrills of Rosemary's Baby and Don't Look Now. As Angel progresses deeper into his investigation, he is plunged into the world of voodoo worship and animal sacrifice. He witnesses Epiphany engage in a ritual sacrifice of chickens to the Dark Lord, has recurring hallucinations of orgies and encounters a masked, black-clad creature, culminating in the now infamous scene in which gallons of blood fall on him and young Proudfoot while they screw...
...gigolo's mustache, but also a little girl, a fat woman, a Prince look-alike and his votary (played by Fellow Heads Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth) -- get to put on the hit, and each does so with reckless style. Other songs show up disguised as TV commercials, voodoo incantations, 4-H boys' chants, a fashion-show monologue; and in each the down-home naivete of the lyrics twins neatly with the gotta-sing-along tunes. Hard not to have a lot of fun watching this movie...
...Cosby Show. But this summer Bonet, 18, wanted a change of image. So she made Angel Heart, with Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. In the movie, due for release next March, she plays a bayou-country fieldworker who has an infant son -- and incidentally is a voodoo priestess. "Not a conventional teenager," allows Bonet, who drew on her Creole roots. "I had to do a lot of self- exploration." Bonet was not moved to any self-exploration by the news that the latest Harper's Bazaar had included her on its most beautiful list. (Among the others: Nancy Reagan...
...meantime, the Haitian aliens have seen their work permits revoked and have lost their federal benefits, including unemployment compensation. Outside their tightly knit communities, they have been shunned for their disputed link to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and often misunderstood for the practice of voodoo that many of them brought along from the old country. Even so, the immigration wave has continued. Indeed, the latest group arrived off the coast of Florida last Friday, just hours before Duvalier fled Haiti...
Indeed, it was the end of a bloody era in Haiti's history. Baby Doc's father Francois Duvalier was a soft-spoken middle-class physician who encouraged Haitian peasants to believe that he possessed magical powers through the use of the country's folk religion, voodoo. Elected President in 1957, Duvalier guaranteed liberty and well-being to all Haitians, but the pledge soon rang hollow. Duvalier forbade criticism of his leadership and declared himself President-for-Life in 1964. He posed for a portrait that showed an image of Jesus Christ clapping him on the shoulder...