Word: barkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest hiss went to Pat Buchanan, the second biggest to Ross Perot; a dog wearing a "Barkin for Harkin" sandwich board got an arf (former Harkin aides were present). The eeriest reverse deja-vu moment came when the camera caught Begala outside a hotel doing his drop-dead Perot imitation to abc's Mark Halperin's decent Al Gore, a preview of the matchup the night before on Larry King Live. The deepest groan sounded when, on-screen, campaign chairman (now U.S. Trade Representative) Mickey Kantor, in his power tie and suspenders, enters a room full of jeans...
...next film scheduled in the series, "Into the West," will be shown by Brown next Saturday in the Carpenter Center. One of the film's two primary stars, Ellen Barkin and Gabriel Byrne, might attend, Posner said...
...script by Robert Getchell, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, contains some elisions and some dramatic heightening, but nothing outrageous. It opens with a young Toby (nicely played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his mother Caroline (Ellen Barkin) adrift in the West in the 1950s, looking for work. She's penniless, on the run from a broken marriage and an inappropriate lover. She has a good heart but not a very sensible one, and she falls in with Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro), an auto mechanic from dreary Concrete, Washington...
...Tobias grumbles only a bit. He doesn't think much of Getchell's script, which seems to him "a little banal and sitcomish, with a few cheap thrills thrown in." He objects to a rough sex scene between Robert De Niro, who plays the churlish stepfather Dwight, and Ellen Barkin, who plays the mother Caroline. (The Wolff brothers' mother is Rosemary in real life.) Tobias believes the sex scene breaks the film's point of view, since otherwise the entire action is observed through the boy Toby...
...tough on a woman when the best man around is a philandering dog trainer who had to change his name to avoid creditors. MAN TROUBLE wants you to believe that it's less tough on the woman (Ellen Barkin) when the man is Jack Nicholson. But Jack is looking too creased and rusted to play a romantic lead. And the story, about predatory men from all social strata lurking in the cobwebbed corners of a modern woman's life, gets neither the zest nor the sick thrill it could use. This is an enervated, despondent entertainment -- especially if you start...