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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aside from the comic irony of seeing her decapitate helpless ragdolls, Struthers' main contribution to the show is her name recognition. She portrays Miss Hannigan as little more than a drunk with a penchant for the laundry man, although she does have a rather entertaining drunken twitch, which starts as merely an annoyance but escalates into a full-body contortion of sorts by the final scene. Her singing is at times a high-pitched and quite realistic whine, and at others a growl worthy of the most horrible of lonely spinsters. According to the playbill, Struthers is the first...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IT'S THE HARD KNOCK LIFE | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...this one just spilled liquids incontinently, as though painting were no more demanding than knocking over a cup of coffee or taking a pee. But when you look at these pictures, it isn't so. Pollock was a consummate aesthete. (The fact that he could also be a mean, drunken galoot doesn't gainsay that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dappled Glories | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...group heads back to their motel for a drunken party and all seems good until Valeck (Thomas Ian Griffith), the oldest and most powerful vampire on Earth, bursts out of the ground looking like an undead Fabio. He has lightning-quick speed, superhuman strength and grins maliciously as bullets rip through his body. He promptly heads over to the motel and coldly and efficiently slaughters the entire team, the only survivors being Crow and his best buddy Montoya (Daniel Baldwin...

Author: By William Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Carpenter's Vampires Has a Bloody Bite | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Williams is an example of the consummate artist--she aches to share her life with us. Unabashedly, she related the story behind "Drunken Angel," a song about a troubled friend who was shot dead in Austin. In contrast to her album, where Williams drunkenly drawls out the lyrics, vividly mirroring the sloshing of her friend's life, Williams performed a rather toned-down version. But she seemed more contemplative, more reflective. After the awkward anguish of Angel," Williams was finally ready to actively reveal her true self. Her words and lyrics were woven so seamlessly with the subdued melody...

Author: By Teri Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucinda Williams Sings the Blues | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...shined through in Shaham's playing was his love of music, his ability to capture the fun-loving spirit of the music: rocking back and forth on his heels in time to the honky-tonk rhythms of the piece, smiling as he cheekily "strummed" his violin to mimic the drunken ukelele player, Shaham clearly showed he was having a great time...

Author: By Ankur N. Gnosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Virtuoso Shaham Astounds Adoring Audience | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

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