Word: angelo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gimmicky devices a first-timer often employs and adds his own special stand-up-comic touch to many of the funny scenes. However, his successes on the comedy side barely compensate for his failure to turn the romantic spark between Reynolds and the new first lady Beverly D'Angelo into a flame. Even in comedy, the director at times stretches for just a little bit too much, for that extra, meaningless laugh...
...most humorous moments, including a disgustingly (not sexually) funny scene in a butcher shop with Toni Kalem and an exquisite sequence of events with the striking Lauren Hutton. From the start, however, it is too obvious that Buddy will wind up with the trumpeting waitress Maggie, played by D'Angelo...
...path. After 1 min. 45 sec. of blows that Hearns was powerless to return, Referee Pearl stopped the fight. Hearns, who had been ahead on points with all three judges at that moment, looked on incredulously. "I thought I was in pretty much control," he protested later. Said Angelo Dundee, Leonard's manager: "Tommy Hearns was out of it. He didn't know where he was." Hearns' trainer and manager, Emanuel Steward, acknowledged that the referee had made the right decision...
Back to the Hearns-Cuevas fight. Still the first round. Hearns is pummeling Cuevas on the ropes. The announcer notices Cuevas's courage, saying, "If Cuevas shows Hearns that he can take this kind of punishment, it could turn to his advantage." Angelo Dundee, Leonard's trainer and a guest commentator: "Yeah, but that kind of punishment don't do nobody no good...
...wheels, you get: cute hookers, more bickering couples than a Bronx highrise, a town that paints itself pink, an elephant on water skis, and some funny car crashes. In a large, bland cast (Beau Bridges, William Devane, Teri Garr, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), only Beverly D'Angelo stands out as an overripe woman who can't say no, and for whom "the International House of Pancakes is the one consistent thing in my life." The rest of this Freeway is like 107 minutes of bad road...