But before this Benetton-ad multiculturalism kicks in director Mick Jackson no relation wants
But before this Benetton-ad multiculturalism kicks in, director Mick Jackson (no relation) wants to play Yahweh. Seventies disaster movies like Airport and The Towering Inferno preached against over-reliance on technology, but Volcano takes on grander, more Old Testament themes In fact, Jackson’s film is an act of blistering retribution. He opens by cross-cutting shots of bubbling subterranean magma with inane images of LA life, parading Marlboro billboards, smart cars and grinning body- builders. All you need is lava.
As the buildings of Los Angeles crash and combust around the cast of Volcano (12), racist white cops learn to respect mouthy African Americans; a cutesy toddler surveys the survivors’ ash- blacked faces and exclaims, “Look at their faces! They all look the same!” as redemptive rain pours down. Attica Blues support Morcheeba on their national tour starting on Tues at Sheffield Leadmill (0114 275 4500).Nicholas Barber reviews television, page 6.. One was reminded of the important fact that musical time is elastic in a way that lived time isn’t and that it isn’t the quantity of notes you play that counts but the relationship the notes bear to each other and to the space in time they displace. There’s probably a moral in there somewhere.Robbie Williams: Wolverhampton Civic Hall (01902 312030), tonight; Manchester Academy (0161 275 4815), Mon; Liverpool Royal Court (0151 709 4322), Wed; Leeds T&C (0113 280 0100), Thurs; Glasgow Barrowlands (0141 552 4601), Fri. Write to Rough Guides, IoS offer, 1 Mercer Street, London WC2H 9QJ. A free ‘Rough Guide’ to the first three subscribers each week.. Despite having a bathroom shelf full of delicious products in fancy bottles, jars and pumps, where once immaculate skin was, I now have spots.
This is due to greed – bringing home too many different products to try out myself rather than distributing them about my testers, and therefore over-stimulation of my skin. New products make one eager to cleanse, tone and cream up, but perhaps that natural slovenliness of before served to give my face a rest However, this is a useful time for testing spot remedies. My favourite is by Erno Laszlo and not really a spot thing at all. It’s called Regular Normalizer Shake-it and is a powder liquid formation that you shake and apply. It’s proper use is as an excellent light foundation, smoothing and matting as it goes, but dabbed on a spot it seems to suck out the bugger from its very bed. Malheureusement, the RNS is only available in the US.
Two other fabulous products are Aveda’s Balancing Infusion for oily skin/acne treatment, pounds 16.50, which you put on neat at night (and like all Aveda’s products it smells fantastic), and Superdrug’s Tea Tree Touch Stick, which has tea tree and peppermint oil and smells edible. It’s confusing, because it comes in a tube with a lip-gloss-type spongy applicator and I keep wanting to put it on my lips.
But it is a fine product, costs pounds 1.99 and is easy to carry around.However, this month is about water and its importance in skincare. None of that cleansing with enough cotton-wool pads to make an elephant’s tampon for a heavy flow day, and not a drop of water in sight You need to fair flood your face with water. Fill your sink with hand-hot water, add a dash of toner to make it a bit more special and wipe off your cleanser with a flannel, which you dip in and out with gay abandon. A linen or smooth cotton one is better than the towelling kind and the Conran shop do a good waffle one for pounds 2.50. You can also use torn up old sheets, but this has a bit of a Victorian workhouse, under-age pregnancy feel to it that I don’t much care for.