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While Bondra's departure and return were very visible, it was the disappearance of the Bruins' leading scorer, Jason Allison, and the rest of the young Boston attack that made the difference in the game...
...Allison, who had 83 points during the regular season, was held to just one shot by defenders Tinordi and Calle Johansson. Kolzig made 27 saves, and the only goal he allowed came off a teammate's skate as he outdueled his best friend Byron Dafoe, who had 24 saves...
...nice muddle, especially since Wasserstein provides the couple with all kinds of complications. She has rich, interfering relatives (Alan Alda and the divinely bitchy Allison Janney). He soon has a new gay flame (Amo Gulinello) whose worldly-wise longtime companion (wonderfully portrayed by Nigel Hawthorne) gets hurt as hard as Nina does. But it's also too much of a muddle. There is no logical way to arrange the kind of romantic reconciliation the writer, director (Nicholas Hytner) and we desperately want to enjoy. For neither Wasserstein nor Rudd quite wants to come to grips with the fact that George...
...script is schizophrenic. While Macaulay's book is known for its intensive character studies of Nina and George, Wendy Wasserstein's script idles with the addition of random, irrelevant characters. Alan Alda and Allison Janey appear in small supporting roles to fit the screen with comic relief whenever the cheese becomes unbearable. Nigel Hawthorne, a Hytner mainstay, is thrown into the movie for no apparent reason (other than to give a tedious monologue where he works in the title of the movie.) Even worse, the script is unsure of itself-the declarations of love between various sets of characters...
...know is that his barbershop's called LaFlamme, and that's sketchy," says James R. Allison...