Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girls in moviedom--The Piano's Flora and the young Jane Eyre--Paquin, 14, keeps the melancholy theme going in her next film, Fly Away Home. She plays Amy, who moves in with her estranged inventor father after her mother dies in a car crash. She has to teach wild geese she finds to fly, or a wildlife officer will clip their wings. At least she gets to cuddle something soft...
...Flags Magic Mountain: This park is the largest (read: most spread out) of the three, so make sure your shoes are made for walking. Once again, bottled water is a plus. Dehydration and overheating can easily occur while you're in line. The wild rides are not for the tame of heart, and usually hold limited appeal for young children. Thus, teenagers and young adults have the run of the park, making the lines move a little more rapidly, in my opinion...
...highlights among the human ranks come from the minor characters. Jim Turner captures the self-assured, wild-eyed eccentricity of the imaginary crazy artist mold the movie creates. And Robert Vaughn has a broad, amusing turn as Lily's cross-dressing senator father: he asks her where she bought her earrings, and it is a split second before we remember...
...little more adventurous than Beth, or perhaps just more curious. Last Memorial Day, reported USA Today, the two high school students traveled from their hometown of Montoursville, Pennsylvania, to Hershey Park, for a Weird Al Yankovic concert; while there, Julia took Beth up on one of the park's wild rides. Last week adventure beckoned again. Both girls had a chance to go on the Montoursville High School French club's excursion to France. Beth, given a choice by her parents, opted out: instead, they bought her a Dodge Lancer. Julia chose the trip. This time, the roller coaster flared...
Such spoonfeeding is, unfortunately, the problem of some of the other characters in the work, though the script is somewhat to blame for this. Claire Bloom, for example, gives a seamless performance as Mary, nervous grasping hands, wild eyes, hysterical overennunciation and all. The problem with her portrayal of the Mary we all know and pity is just that--we all know her. While surely a weak Mary would foul the chemistry of any production of "Journey," in this case, a too-polished Mary merely fails to hold our attention the way she obviously holds the attention of the other...