Fom Hell, or Jack the Ripper revisited, raises huge expectations: The directors are Albert and Allen Hughes, the Detroit-born twins who made a strong 1993 debut with Menace II Society. The source is the acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. The star is the reliably subtle Johnny Depp, who plays Fred Abberline, the psychic, opium-smoking Cockney cop out to stop the Ripper from carving up London prostitutes, notably, Mary Kelly (Heather Graham). Peter Deming's atmospheric camerawork suggests that the 1888 story will set up a timeless ghetto conflict between the working and ruling classes. But the Hughes boys blow it by burying a fine cast — Robbie Coltrane as a cop and Ian Holm as a royal sawbones are standouts — in stock scares, sappy romance and clich —that really are from hell.

“Tonight's the Night”

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."