Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There were coaching and personell problems with Coach Pike," says team Captain Adam Button. "They've been ameliorated with Coach Bernal. He knows his stuff and his strategy...
From this point on, the movie veers dangerously near the plot of Romancing the Stone. She meets the son of the author of the Rebecca Ryan novels, Adam McMann (Tom Conti). He thinks she's a put-on or a practical joke. She thinks he is her fictional right-hand man Dimitri. Doubts begin springing up in McMann's mind after he and Ryan/Palmer are sniped at few times by an unknown assassin. The imitation pulp heroine thinks it's all part of a plot involving a prominent French politician (Giancarlo Grannini), who would just as soon have nothing...
...capital crime of this move is that Conti is not on screen enough. The inexplicably popular JoBeth Williams hogs more screen than her role or talent really deserve. She performs with commendable competence, but really, how hard is it to play a suburban housewife? Or a female Adam West...
...Adam Zagorin...
...Stephen Koepp. Reported by Robert Kroon/Bem and Adam Zagorin/New York