Word: blind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reveres the old coaches like Henry Iba, Joe Lapchick and Pete Newell. When Clair Bee was 85 and blind, Long Island's great coach painstakingly scratched out a message for Knight that read: "Clair Bee and Bob Knight do not believe that repetition is gospel." Lately Knight, 46, has actually dabbled in zone defenses and, as the euphemism goes, "broadened his recruiting base." A junior-college transfer, Keith Smart, made the last two jumpers against Syracuse...
Which is not to say that this movie isn't somewhat enlightening. I mean, what man on earth could ever guess that going on a blind date with Kim Basinger could end up ruining your life? What begins as pleasant enough evening for fast-track L.A. careerist Walter Davis (Bruce Willis), leaves him fired, arrested, injured, hung over, and with only the frame of his sporty white car to drive home...
...FILMING this blind date gone rotten, Blake Edwards leaves no nightmares undreamt. Houses that have always stood in one place are suddenly carried away and beds that have always been sturdy cave in. Following the dinner fiasco, the rest of the night is spent in a California-freeway car chase with Nadia's homicidal ex-boyfriend David (John Larroquette), who also happens to be a trial lawyer...
...much you like Blind Date depends on how much you love soon-to-be-overexposed Bruce Willis, who gives a likable performance as the yuppie next door who should have been a big star. Surprisingly, Willis ends up spending most of the movie playing the straight man to Basinger's drunken antics. And after watching her passively pout her way through 9-1/2 Weeks, it is hard to believe what a convincing comedienne this Barbi Doll can be. This may just be Basinger's calling...
...Blind Date is the sort of movie that is hard to like and impossible to dislike. It is consistently funny (or, at least, constantly laughable), and in the end the bad guys get burned, the good guy gets the girl--and, most important, Willis recovers swiftly enough to survive his first feature film...