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...goodwill and faith and forgiveness, there are some hearts that may never be comforted. Mitchell Wright lost his wife Shannon to the hail of bullets. His fading tan is a reminder of a happier time. It was just three weeks ago that he, Shannon and their son Zane, 3, returned from Disney World in Orlando, Fla. "Thank goodness we were able to do that," says Wright. The family had other dreams, he says, but "they have been shattered." The loss resounds with the question repeated by Zane: "Where's Mommy...
...segment of society rather than a person, from Winslet's snobbish mother (Frances Fisher) to DiCaprio's earthy Italian friend (Danny Nucci). Only the underutilized Kathy Bates, who provides tremendous fun as the 'Unsinkable' Molly Brown, stands apart from the cardboard cast. No one is worse than Billy Zane as Winslet's insufferable, domineering fiancee. The character is tragically thin, and Zane does less with it than one would think possible...
...minutes before the iceberg slices open the starboard side, some compelling romantic fiction is in order. Here the film fails utterly. It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate a predictable prejudice: that the first-class passengers are third-class people, and vice versa...
...story that comes closest to Wolff's stunningly rendered "Powder" is "Transactions" by Jamaican writer Michelle Cliff (No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng). As wonderfully bizarre as it poetic, it tells the story of a traveling salesman hawking American goods and culture ("Witch hazel. Superman. Band-Aids, Zane Grey. Chili Con carne...Camels") on a Caribbean island who buys a poor German girl that he finds on the roadside. Before taking the girl home to his sterile wife, they go to an enchanted spring/hotel/tourist attraction run by a woman with an obsession with Jet magazine...
...Never mind that the Roman occupation of Britain was already crumbling by then and that it never extended to Ireland in the first place. Historical exactitude isn't something to be expected from a series with a prince who looks like Doogie Howser, and a Roman queen, Diana (Lisa Zane), who resembles a chic but hard-nosed tax attorney...