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...Gerry seems a little more engaged in family life and Ellie is actually writing something. But we can be pretty certain that distraction will reassert itself, probably sooner rather than later. Anyway, it would betray the film's spirit if everyone suddenly started tidying things up for a thumping conclusion. The theaters are full of such endings anyway. What's always in short supply are movies that have something to do with life as most of us actually experience it. Bad Behaviour briefly, smartly fills that...
...years ago, Tucker started doing abortions for the money, but has since become a strong pro-choicer. Of the pro-lifers, he says, "They've got me pissed off, and I'm not going to quit." Yet he can betray an uneasy ambivalence. "I wish I would never ever have to do another one," he says. "I don't like it. It's not fun. It's not like you're curing a cancer or fixing a broken bone. You're terminating a potential life...
...Leviticus chapter includes a section on sex straightforwardly called "All About Getting Down." It solemnly notes, "It was a bad thing to do the wild thing without the blessing from the Almighty. You had to be hitched." And, in Genesis, Joseph rejects Potiphar's wife because he "couldn't betray a homeboy that way. Also, he couldn't jock the Almighty either, 'cuz it wouldn't be right sleeping with somebody else's ol' lady...
...DAVID JOSEPH KENNEDY has been vastly successful at Harvard. But these successes--and the context in which he has achieved them--sometimes betray his own desire to live life freely, to quote from both "In Living Color" and a German theologian in the same conversation, to write for Perspective and Lampoon in the same week...
...like laughing at Americans, and this production gives us ample opportunity to chortle at some completely pathetic specimens. For all their intellectual cultivation, the professors squabble loudly over the tab at restaurants, blatantly betray their sexual indiscretions and generally embarass themselves. The audience cringes at their sycophantic adoration of all things British...