Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the outlaws, Cocteau frees a killer named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) from cryogenic prison (they took to deep-freezing criminals as early as 1996, during the last convulsive phase of urban warfare). To deal with him, his wimpy cops, not knowing Phoenix is in league with their boss, warm up his old nemesis John Spartan (Stallone), who's been doing chilly time for overly enthusiastic police work in the bad old days...
...enacts the soft underbelly. Mamet, 45, celebrates ferocious winners, while Lemmon, 68, sentimentalizes good-guy losers. Yet twice within the past year, the two have teamed for poignant results, first in the 1992 film adaptation of Mamet's Pulitzer Prize play, Glengarry Glen Ross, and now in a surprisingly warm TV version of his 1977 off-Broadway hit, A Life in the Theatre. Mamet's austere, elliptic prose seems to bring out the best in Lemmon -- his naked frustration as he fights for dignity -- without any of the fussy mannerisms and comedic cuteness that have marred many of his portraits...
Indeed, the Leverett House production fostered this kind of empathy from the audience. The small space, small cast and warm lighting contributed to the cozy, intimate feel. The timely elements of the play--the period costumes, props, music and lingo--were overshadowed by the universal truths of Heidi's struggle with loneliness...
Although the riff follows the basic disco patterns, the lead vocalist's solo foreshadows early '80s pop and gospel music. "We are Family" carries you into a disco paradiso of warm, mellow lava lamps, hot incense, disco togetherness, and the aura of love...
...neighborhood men congregating on every street corner. Unfortunately, "A Bronx Tale" offers no surprises, rarely venturing beyond the conventions of this well-known small-time gangster genre. Positioned before and behind the camera, perhaps Robert De Niro has attempted to do too much. He offers a tale both warm and moving, but ultimately unsatisfying...