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Peter (Alec Baldwin) and Rita (Meg Ryan) have a love too good to be true. He is sensible and cute; she is vague and cute. "Let's get married," he says, almost as soon as he meets her. "O.K.," she says. On their wedding day, an anonymous old man (Sydney Walker) gives Rita a congratulatory kiss . . . and things start to go sour. On their honeymoon, she doesn't drink; Rita was a Dewar's girl. Before, she was forgetful; now she is an amnesiac. Suddenly she is fastidious in her lovemaking. To Peter, Rita seems another person. Isn't everyone...
After an uncertain start, director Norman Rene (a valued collaborator on all of Lucas' projects) finds a sure, subtle rhythm that honors both the script's delicacy and the boisterous demands of a date-night movie audience. Baldwin, who breathed this role so naturally in the play's off-Broadway stint that no one else needed apply for the movie version, is a terrific guide through Peter's decent bafflement. Ryan, new to the part, must work hard to get under Rita's skin, which she does beautifully at about the time someone else invades it. And Walker, a stage...
...best, although perhaps not the only, reason to see Patriot Games, which is a sort of sequel to the successful adaptation of another Tom Clancy thriller, The Hunt for Red October. Ford replaced Alec Baldwin, who played sometime cia intelligence analyst Jack Ryan in the earlier movie, when Baldwin turned uppity. Some other characters are also carried over from the previous venture...
There may be some colleges that really areivory towers, but not Harvard, thankfully. Thereal world impinged on Harvard every day, andHarvard imposed itself on the world. I recall,during my first year, going to speeches by GeorgeC. Wallace and James Baldwin and Malcolm X andMartin Luther King Jr. Did that happen anywhereelse? And were professors at other colleges asmuch in demand on Capitol Hill as ours? That, ofcourse, could be a mixed blessing. I thinkProfessor Henry Kissinger missed almost as manyGov. 180 lectures...
...once again has an inner glow, this most Broadwayesque of musicals leads the way. It has been a season of powerhouse new plays by August Wilson, Herb Gardner, Neil Simon, Brian Friel and Richard Nelson. It has been a season of movie- and TV-star glitter -- Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin and Amy Madigan in A Streetcar Named Desire; Glenn Close, Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss in Ariel Dorfman's politically inflamed Death and the Maiden; fast-rising Larry Fishburne, direct from the angry film Boyz N the Hood to Wilson's wistful Two Trains Running; Judd Hirsch; Alan Alda; Jane...