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...every unseen movie is a masterpiece, as Success amiably proves. Its oafish hero Harry (Bridges) cannot seem to get the attention of his pretty, dotty wife (Belinda Bauer). They have sex every Friday; in between she chats with her cats and practices ballet before her favorite companion, a full-length mirror. So Harry gives himself another life, in the guise of a swaggering gangster named Mack. Suddenly, love and the perfect swindle are his for the daring. This is a cynical fairy tale that must be told with buoyancy of spirit; Richert's gift is for earthbound madness...
...Kegan (Bridges) follows a zig-zag trail of clues, threats and intuitions to find out who killed his President brother. But who will help him? His father (John Huston), a wily priapic megamillionaire who lopes through his several palaces in flaming red Jockey shorts? Nick's sultry girlfriend (Belinda Bauer again), who may work for a national newsmagazine and then again may be employed by darker powers to lead Nick by the leash of his lust? Perhaps the demented genius (Anthony Perkins) who runs the Kegan empire by computer, storing "black holes of information" until the data...
...motorcycle by jumping up and down and kicking it, or when Swann--after initially arriving in the village--offers to reverse the charges if they will let him use their phone to call L.A. And there are some funny scenes between Swann and Claire, the love interest, played by Belinda Baucr. But we keep waiting for a scene which never comes in which everything will become clear in Swann and to the other characters. Swann never really explains to the other characters where he comes from; we are never even sure if he realizes he has been sent back...
...dealt with disturbed adolescents. But she remained generally quiet, and shifted her vote to not guilty over the course of the deliberations. As the discussion progressed, everyone agreed that they were still far from decided. "So we took out the evidence and put our personal feelings aside," recalls Belinda Drake, 23, a secretary at the Pentagon...
...that our heroine doesn't get turned on once or twice; in fact, one message Jong seems to want to convey is that the once-innocent and always good-intentioned Fanny eventually breathes easily with her sexuality--enough, supposedly, to chronicle the sordid trysts for her daughter, the aforementioned Belinda (not surprisingly, Jong dedicates Fanny to her own daughter). And Jong does hit at some sort of admirable feminine tenacity that allows women to endure victimization. But what kind of goodness--either basic moral goodness or the good for Woman--is revealed in watching a woman repeatedly victimize herself...