Manic is a collection of angsty songs that seem to have a personal connection to the artist (going by the lyrical content) involving breakdown, break-up, hang ups and deft-defying crashes with reality. There is even the unfortunate foray into a raunchy moment. Yet as an album delivered to the popular mainstream, the masses may or […]
This 1988 film was not a comedy although starred Bette Midler, the darling of comic invention, who made a bankable star at the movies as well. Here, in Beaches, the loveable comedienne loses none of her extroverted edginess but tempers it with a much softer shade, opposite the fine Barbara Hershey. As their respective characters, […]
