Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not a collection of slick hits, all ready to slide into position over the opening credits of Dawson's Creek (though one wouldn't rule that out). Jagged Little Pill was the kind of album you could listen to straight through, without having to fast-forward past any atrocious songs. But Junkie dares more and misses more--it's a more admirable album than her last but not a more listenable one. A few tunes, like the smooth Unsent, are readily agreeable. But too many, like faulty modem hookups, crackle and wail and fail to connect emotionally. Despite...
...fact, much of the movie, with its uninspired cinematography and the dullness of its supporting cast, reeks faintly of television. The intermittent high school scenes, little more than filler here, seem more like "Dawson's Creek" with 4-letter words than anything else, a situation not helped by casting Joshua Jackson (also known as Pacey) in the role of Smith's best friend. The horror scenes, too, are filmed in a style that seems little more than a lackluster imitation of "The X-Files." Those same scenes are given their undeniable force not by the perfunctory work of the technicians...
...loyalty, cable affiliates and so on. All of which is very interesting and valid but misses the point. The key to the WB's success is this: babes, male and female. With the glossy yet smoldering Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the coltish Katie Holmes of Dawson's Creek, the Phoebus-like Barry Watson of 7th Heaven and all the rest, the WB has the best-looking stars on TV. Is this business really so very complicated...
...Backstreet Boys play games with your heart? What about 'N Sync--are they tearin' up your heart? Are you still hangin' tough with the NKOTB? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you need to (a) shut off "Dawson's Creek," finish the latest Sweet Valley High novel and get into therapy, and (b) book it over to Davis Square for the Beatlemania tribute. Celebrate the Fab Four that paved the way for all your fave guy groups, and pick up a CD your roommates can tolerate on the way. 8 p.m., Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square...
...Reeves succeed in making their show lightly cinematic, creating a plusher experience for the viewer than is usual on TV. What really makes Felicity enjoyable, though, is that despite its requisite melodrama, it is emotionally plausible and endearing. In this it is very different from its demographic stablemates Dawson's Creek and Fox's Ally McBeal, which are dishonest to their core and as a result impossibly irritating to watch. Felicity, instead, manages to be pretty good, gooey, yearning, adolescent fun. Not bad for a first...