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...genre of classic romantic, comedies with duos such as Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, director Andrew Bergman has found a cinematic piece de resistance in Bridget Fonda and Nicholas Cage. While the characters they play are basically one-dimensional and the film revolves around a simple, funny plot, "It Could Happen to You" sands alone as the best romantic comedy of the summer...
Directed by Andrew Bergman...
Unfortunately, some of the plot structures hinder the storytelling. For some odd reason, Bergman and, I presume, screenwriter Jane "Anderson, decide to have the movie narrated by an outsider, Angel played by Isaac Hayes. At first it seems as if this Angles is supposed to be just that, some sort of guardian angel watching over the budding romance. When Angel turns out to be a photographer for one of the many tabloids who have been covering this unusual story, I felt a bit cheated...
...doubt the legal department okayed this wording, and since then the company has followed up this exploratory mea culpa with an entire ad campaign called Straight Talk. The ads are filmed in black and white and resemble old Bergman movies, but the characters are not actors. They are living stockbrokers and other Prudential employees, including Mr. Simmons, who appears in several. The camera gets so close you can almost count his fillings...
...likely to influence Streisand. Even those who find her a maddening perfectionist admit that few performers work harder. A musician who played in her Las Vegas show logged in 60 hours of orchestra rehearsal time, and says Streisand, unlike most singers, was present for almost every minute. Lyricist Marilyn Bergman, who with her partner and husband Alan helped write the script for Streisand's stage show, scoffs at her reputation as a difficult diva. "Barbra never says, 'That's good enough.' People who don't understand or appreciate this process might find it threatening or tiresome. But she is indefatigable...