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...powers that be in the Freshman Dean's Office did indeed make a special project of Wigglesworth A-11, four years later, their creation is still functioning smoothly. Listening to the four students' friendly, nostalgic banter, one is struck by the degree to which each feels comfortable with his place within the group. They exemplify the notion that one is only free to be an individual within a community...
Beneath the banter, both were uneasy over the issue. Jackson's present mission is to win as many delegates as he can, starting this week in Pennsylvania and climaxing in New Jersey and California. Austin calculates that California is the one big arena where Jackson might stage a dramatic upset. Democrats there have a contrarian history of shafting the front runner, and Jackson's operatives were even putting a perverse "win by losing" spin on their situation after New York. "Now it's okay to vote for Jackson, because he's not going to be President," an adviser explained...
...fact the play is at its best when the plot calls for pure yuppiedom. The staccato exchange of pleasantries and other banter at an art-show opening cocktail party is admirably done. The best performance is turned in by Paul's boss, Diane (Sandra Shiply), whose locked jaw and frozen smile never let down, even though she suffers the most terrible tragedies. Of course real yuppies, because of the frequently superficial aspects of their lifestyles, are actors too, so it would make sense that professional actors would be at their best in imitating them. The problem is that this dual...
While the result is a far cry from live, Williams' routines are more entertaining than most A.M. banter. But even so, the rest of Good Morning, Vietnam is incongruous enough with the comedy sequences that, taken as a whole, the film is difficult to digest. Director Barry Levinson, ecshewing the by-now-traditional shots of Vietnamese villages being burned and peasants shot, intersperses the Saigon sequences with dream-like footage of patrol boats cruising, soldiers milling about, helicopters taking...
...leave the great gift of banter...