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Your choices range from self-help books to celebrity biographies, from John Grisham thrillers to the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, most narrated by well-known actors (Sam Waterston, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenda Jackson, Michael York) and compressed into easy-listening chunks of three or four hours -- "because," as one audio publisher's blurb puts it, "books are long and life is short...
...reprise of her real-life cross-racial relationship with Ted Danson, Whoopi Goldberg stars "Corrina, Corrina" as the yin to Ray Liotta's yang. As the ever-helpful, racially suppressed and mischievous maid Corrina (pronounced Core-ee-na), Goldberg delivers what is a lackluster performance...
...underplayed version of her true self. As expectation would have it, she would push beyond the role as it was written and create something extraordinary from the mundane. But she doesn't reach that point. Throughout the film I kept waiting for a moment or two of Whoopi as the insightfully funny or pointedly wicked, but she only serves to fulfill what has been written for her and nothing more...
...voices are extremely well-chosen. Whoopi Goldberg makes a great hyena, and Robert Guillaume a hilarious baboon/mystic. James Earl Jones has the true vocal chords of a king (and hey, we're used to hearing his disembodied voice). Even the lesser-known voices seem to fit their characters well, except, unfortunately, for the adult Simba's tones. Somehow, Matthew Broderick just doesn't remind the average viewer of a powerful lion king...
Later this year, Ray and Saliers will appear with actress and comic Whoopi Goldberg in the movie Boys on the Side. Goldberg plays a lesbian folk singer who runs into Indigo Girls in a Tucson, Arizona, bar. Together, they all sing a few Indigo Girls songs along with a cover of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. Saliers and Ray enjoyed working with Goldberg ("Technically, her voice is only a little above average," says Ray, "but she's got soul and can really deliver a song"), although they disagree on whether more films are in their future. Says...