Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result was Into the Sun, a polished albumful of tunes that doesn't suffer from overproduction or banality. Tracks range from a jazzy instrumental ("Photosynthesis"), swooning vocals cum lethargic guitar slosh ("Spaceship") and a toned-down big band Wild West chronicle ("Part One of the Cowboy Trilogy"), all mixed up with love songs galore. Many guests play on the record with Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda, Sean's partner, figuring in significantly on most of Into the Sun's material. She is the emotional, reflective centerpiece, an instrumentalist and the producer, contributing so much that the album should be accredited...
...Pittsburgh, Pa., a wild-haired doctor finishes a round of surgeries before noon, gets into a Mercedes and then motors an hour north to help his 73-year-old father mix chemicals and explosives in the fireworks capital of the world...
...relatively wild soccer celebrations showed, the children of the revolution in particular are desperate for Khatami to succeed. Seconds after the game was over, they began pouring into the streets by the thousands, performing rituals of public joy that would have got them arrested in everyday circumstances. Teenagers played rock music at full volume on their car tape decks and hopped out to boogie in the streets. Young women hung outside the windows of streaking cars and let their dark tresses flow outside their compulsory head scarves, unchaste behavior to the mullahs...
...read that right. For to shatter the mighty meteor, a hydrogen bomb must be sunk deep into its core. That means hiring a wild bunch of wildcat oil drillers, led by Bruce Willis, to do the deed. They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience. The roughnecks immediately start squabbling with the fly-right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this...
There are enough complications in this relationship to fill a book--or a screenplay. But for Leonard and his smart adapters--director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Frank--that's just a promising beginning. There's a tricky diamond heist to be not quite perpetrated and many wild cards to be dealt into surprising, plausible play. Notable jokers in this deck include Ving Rhames and Steve Zahn as Foley's accomplices--the former prone to careless confession, the latter a blitzed former hippie not sharp enough for the criminal life--and a comically menacing Don Cheadle making Albert Brooks' white...