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...thinking." The core of the team is composed of three Sydney veterans. In addition to Kásás, there's Gergely Kiss, 26, Hungary's top scorer in 2000, with 14 goals in eight games and hat tricks in both the semifinal and final, and captain Tibor Benedek, 32, a lefty who scored four times in the Sydney final and remains one of the team's strongest all-around players. But the key is Kásás, a versatile, 6-ft.-7-in. right-hander who is the team's fastest swimmer and perhaps the finest...
...guards; others canceled classes altogether. There is no telling exactly how many of these threats were serious. But it's clear that Littleton, at the very least, has given troubled and misguided kids a new way to garner attention. "Most kids aren't interested in this stuff," says Elissa Benedek, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Michigan. "But there are lots of unhappy ones who want their moment in the sun, and this...
...updating the script, Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel have too often substituted topical one-liners (some of them quite funny) for well-joined badinage. This has a distancing effect. Even worse, someone made a disastrous decision to lengthen the early sequence in which Sabrina finds herself in Paris. Wilder got through her maturation at montage speed; Pollack lingers over it for 20 inconsequential minutes, a bring-down from which the movie never quite recovers...
...easy rapport with his two sons that their tense mom (Jessica Lange) can't match. If he has a flaw, it's that he dies 15 minutes into a movie that is as tender and strained as his newly widowed wife. Men Don't Leave, written by Barbara Benedek and director Paul Brickman, gets promising when Lange lurches toward psychotic withdrawal from this grave new world, even as her kids accommodate themselves to it quickly. But a TV-movie moral awaits at the end, as comforting and predictable as a public-service commercial. For the real goods on women without...
Screenplay by Barbara Benedek...