Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Edinburgh lower depths--blithe abusers of heroin, alcohol, nicotine and their best friends--are witty, cunning, brimming with the kind of sociopathic bravado that spells sexiness in the mid-'90s. Well, tsk-tsk and all that. But good movies make their own morals. And this one, based on Irvine Welsh's trend-spotting novel, is also and mainly a display of savvy camerabatics. Though grim death hangs like crepe over our antihero (star-in-the-making Ewan McGregor) and his mates, the John Hodge script and Danny Boyle's direction couldn't be more vital. Aesthetically, at least, Trainspotting chooses...
...seemed to be laying groundwork for the theory that other people in Nicole's life might have had reason to kill her. Many legal observers, however, called the tactic risky. "Unless showing her bad character points in some clear way to showing that somebody else committed the crime," says Welsh White, a criminal-law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, "I think it's going to be more harmful than helpful...
...definitely not," said Craig Welsh, a Somerville resident, when asked if there was a need for another Starbucks. "I'm against Starbucks. They're taking over the world...
...their days and nights. They even throw in a drug deal to wrap things up. Unfortunately--almost tragically, fizzing with this much energy and hype--the film quickly tosses out the window any pretentions to portraying addiction or free-wheeling, troubled youth. Adapted from the popular Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, it hasn't so much lost something in the translation as added far too much film-y junk that leaves one too fuming to appreciate several fine, often grotesque performances...
...Britain Trainspotting has been an improbable multimedia smash. Irvine Welsh's novel, published in 1993, is the Brit-lit phenomenon of the decade. Told in what Welsh calls "a mixture of phonetics and street language" and sold in music stores to the postliterate generation, it spawned T shirts, posters and a stage adaptation that has been produced in Edinburgh, London and San Francisco. The film, with its attendant top-of-the-pops CD and published screenplay, quickly became Britain's second-biggest-ever homemade box-office winner (after Four Weddings and a Funeral, to which it acts as a bitter...