>From a New York Times review of Robert Downey Jr's superb acting on Ally McBeal: He sits down at the piano and, after a few false starts on Christmas carols whose sentiments he can't handle, sings Joni Mitchell's "River," with its rueful portrait of a Christmas scotched by an unfixable lovers' quarrel. Mr. Downey's hoarse, reaching-for-falsetto voice and his distended rock-and-roll phrasing, and the pain that comes through his constricted facial muscles, lend the song a throbbing poignancy. Ranger Rick, queuing up several versions of River on my computer
