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...film Blue Velvet, A Nite-Lite explores the seamy underside of human nature, forcing its audience to descend into the depths of perversity and look at what one character describes as "the part of the light that is dark." The play's action centers around a seemingly upstanding, All-American youth's sadistic abuse of a homeless person found asleep on his doorstep...
...reminiscent of his existential Popeye Doyle of The French Connection. Now, however, he seems strained as he portrays a tough basketball coach who at one time got kicked out of the sport for pasting one of his players but is now an improved man who comes to a wholesome all-American town and tries to teach them boys a thing or two about the game...
...framed by a fireplace, or a couple of perfect bodies meeting in a night-lighted swimming pool. At times the film seems to believe that no thriller can be too rich or too thin. But there is dark substance lurking here, like the avidity and contempt hidden in the all-American smile of its honeyed, moneyed murderer. That would be Catharine (Theresa Russell), who marries and fatally poisons some of the richest men in the world. Maybe she loves them, almost as much as she loves their portfolios. They certainly love her, and they pay for that commitment with their...
...Washington scandal does not yet have a memorable name, but it does have a face. It is a boyishly all-American face, the clear-eyed, clean-cut face that might be that of the second leading man in a 1940s war movie -- the intensely earnest but good-natured copilot who refuses to bail out under enemy fire. A face that appears, at first glance, to be a map of old-fashioned American virtues...
...recent drive to the national semifinals by the Harvard soccer team, Catliff spurred the rugby team's 1984 national championship campaign. Then a sophomore, Catliff was named MVP of the New England rugby union, the National Rugby Tournament, and earned a spot on the Rugby All-American team...