Word: macgregor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went for the next three days of cascading inflation. Many of those who showed up to bid on the desiderata of celebrity were themselves celebrities. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, spouse of J.F.K.'s niece Maria Shriver, muscled up $772,500 for J.F.K.'s MacGregor Woods golf clubs, $134,500 for a Norman Rockwell painting of the President and $189,500 for a leather desk set. From a different latitude, singer Jimmy Buffett telephoned in a winning bid of $43,700 for a Jamie Wyeth lithograph of the President in a sailboat...
...film is set in eighteenth century Scotland, a time, a rolling script informs us, of great hardship for the Scots. In an age of corruption and despair, Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) upholds the ancient clannish honor. Supported by his bonny red-haired wife Mary (Jessica Lange) and a host of loyal MacGregors, Rob Roy matches wits and brawn with the dastardly Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth), bewigged defiler (and then some) of the MacGregor name...
...MacGregor, like the ambitious Scotsman he is, gets the ball rolling when he determines to borrow one thousand pounds from the Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt). The wheres and whyfores are slightly complicated (manifestly humanitarian, of course), but the upshot of the deal is that word of the thousand pounds reaches the ears of the money-hungry English fop, Archibald Cunningham. In between twirling his lace cuffs and showing off his swordsmanship, Cunningham contrives to commit cool murder and expert theft, and the plot is off and running...
Jessica Lange is a firebrand beside Neeson's drooping bulk, even if she is saddled with the stiff-upper-lip female role. And Brian McCardie, who plays the eager young Alasdair MacGregor, is an adorable hyperbole. Of course...
Caton-Jones, at least, tried hard. You can-glimpse his effort in cute little by-the-way details. When MacGregor finally slaughters Cunningham (now you know--hopefully you won't bother to see for yourselves), the Marquis stoops over the body and pulls a cameo of Archie's mother out of the dead man's vest. Is the Marquis Archie's father? Intriguing, but we wish there had been some hint of the relationship beforehand. "Rob Roy" is fully of similar lagunas. One of the most glaring is the fade-out over the course of the film of the clan...