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...this very smart movie, the woman is the lovelorn psycho, the man the not-quite-innocent victim. She (Glenn Close) is an editor; he (Michael Douglas) is a lawyer with a wife (the lovely Anne Archer), a child and a career to lose if his two-night stand is discovered. That the two principals are ostensibly mature professionals, not adolescent airheads, gives the film some of its fatal attractiveness. So do James Dearden's plausible, nicely observant script, Adrian Lyne's elegantly unforced direction, and Close's beautifully calibrated descent into lunacy. Together they bring horror home to a place...
...steroid tests sent U.S. musclemen stampeding back to the airport. But, as expressed by Ohio Hammer Thrower Jud Logan, the mood has calmed. "I like to be tested," he said, after a Pan Am record throw of 253 ft. 5 in. "I like things fair." From the tiny Utah archer Denise Parker, 13, who won a gold medal, to the statuesque Costa Rican swimmer Silvia Poll, 16, teenage girls were the fairest of them all. The daughter of a German businessman who made his way to Costa Rica through Nicaragua, Poll is the biggest (6 ft. 3 in.), blondest...
...Archer's case was bolstered by the testimony and daily presence in court of his attractive wife Mary, 42, a former chemistry professor at Cambridge University and the mother of their two teenage sons. The notion of her husband, a former Oxford University track star, buying the services of a hooker was "preposterous," she said, because "anyone who knows Jeffrey would know that, far from him accosting a prostitute, if one approached him, he would run several miles." Besides, she added, she and her husband "lead a full life...
...Archer broke down on the witness stand defending her husband, while Coghlan dissolved into sobs several times. When Archer's lawyer accused her of concocting the tale in exchange for $10,000 from the News, Coghlan burst out, "You are a liar." At one point, after Coghlan testified that the man she said was Archer had had a pimply back, Mrs. Archer forthrightly declared that her husband possessed "excellent skin." Archer, who did not show his back as evidence, testified that he spent the evening in question dining at a fashionable Mayfair restaurant named Le Caprice. Even the judge seemed...
Elected to Parliament as its youngest Member at 29, Archer has had a tumultuous career. He was forced to give up politics and resign from Parliament five years later when bad investments left him near bankruptcy. Those misfortunes became the grist for his first best seller, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1975), a title that his lawyer last week jokingly suggested should serve as a guide to the jury in setting damages. Archer's seven books have sold 30 million copies worldwide, making him a multimillionaire and, until last fall, a star on the Tory speaking circuit...