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...urban beat. Eight years and 60 million albums, singles and videotapes later, the group -- Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood and Joe McIntyre -- are no longer new and no longer kids. Now in their mid-20s, they have, in show-biz terms at least, reached that other awkward age, groping for a way to reach an adult audience without alienating the screaming teenyboppers who made them rich and famous. So what's an old New Kid to do? Change the band's name, for one thing, to NKOTB (not, obviously, a radical switcheroo) and hire a team...
...hero of I'll Do Anything is Matt Hobbs (Nick Nolte), a gentle character actor in a career dry spell. Matt must suddenly start raising his troubled six-year-old daughter Jeannie (Whittni Wright), whom he has not seen in two years. He juggles his awkward responsibilities to Jeannie with his new interest in a junior executive (Joely Richardson) at a production company run by a blustery mogul (Albert Brooks), who is attracted to a truth-telling market researcher (Julie Kavner). Will Matt win the big role? Will the love teams stay united? Will the child, in a plot twist...
...novel questions of etiquette. If the slushway is wide enough for only one, should you wait for the pedestrian 50 yards up ahead coming in the opposite direction to complete his journey before yourself embarking? Or should you choose to ignore him, and halfway along engage in an awkward Snow Dance--strangers in the snow, exchanging footing...
...Shadowlands" is the "almost-too-late-for-love" story of the season. Although Winger looks young enough to be Hopkins' daughter, what the two lack in chemistry they make up for in old-fashioned talent. England looks very pretty too. Attenborough's direction lulls you into the slow, slightly awkward rhythms of its tradition-bound society. Everyone and everything conspire to be as pleasant as possible, and you can settle comfortably back into your seat (with heaps of tissues) to enjoy an evening of few surprises...
While Darlene has its awkward moments (at one point in the play, Sidney and Rose simply walk off stage for no apparent reason), the momentary lapses are worth the engaging dialogue that Kessler has created. While one of the characters warns "Don't mistake puns for personality," Darlene treats us to a helping of both, with dar-licious results...