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...TALL GUY. Jeff Goldblum is a lanky second banana to an overbearing comedian (Rowan Atkinson); Emma Thompson is the woman who slips on the peel of the tall guy's goofy allure. Keep your expectations low, and enjoy this deft British trifle...
...panache, lounging at a posh beach house in Solana Beach, Calif., and entertaining Vernon executives in high style. Trouble was, the money for such perks allegedly came from the thrift's vaults. According to the indictment, the rent on Dixon's beach house was paid by an associate, Jack Atkinson, who had got loans from Vernon. All told, Atkinson paid $577,000 in rent through loans. When Vernon would no longer extend the credit, Dixon allegedly arranged for Atkinson to receive an extra $24,200 as a "consulting" fee, which also went toward the rent...
Victor Geddes, 33, suffers from leukemia. Abandoning his chemotherapy, he places an ad in the Boston Globe for a companion and caretaker; Hilary Atkinson, 27, applies for the job. Soon these two fall in love and move to the anonymity of a rented room on the Massachusetts coast. There, as winter sets in, they meet Gordon, 30, who becomes Victor's friend and, on the sly, Hilary's lover. The situation is messy, but at least members of the menage can foresee one outcome for certain: Victor will die soon...
...would have been a simple matter to melodramatize or caricature these soldiers' stories. But Atkinson maintains a tone of scrupulous neutrality, and he never loses the Point of his narrative. All along, his greatest character is the military academy itself, sustained by patriotic zeal in the '50s, pocked by controversy in the '60s and cheating scandals in the '70s, yielding in the '80s to a new national temper. Today women are admitted, there is a , course in ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school...
Three survivors carry the burden of Atkinson's narrative. Tom Carhart is a gung-ho lieutenant whose career is derailed by accidents and disfigured by a war he can neither take nor leave. Jack Wheeler is an idealistic Army brat who loses his military faith in the trenches. Postwar, both men have turbulent domestic lives; both resign their commissions, as do nearly 25% of their class. Both are obsessed by the idea of a Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into...