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...high-ranking employee of the Department of Energy during the Carter Administration, Paul Bloom, 41, zealously investigated violations of federal oil-pricing regulations-and forced guilty oil companies to ante up hefty fines...
...Reagan Administration officials discovered last week, Bloom may also have been an overzealous philanthropist...
...male preserve of politics, she became the first U.S. woman Governor ever elected in her own right (a few others followed their husbands). Admirers talked about Grasso as a future Vice President or Cabinet member, but she preferred Hartford to Washington. She kept a sign in her living room: BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED...
...script does little more than gesture half-heartedly in both directions. Since Jeffrey Bloom served as both director and author, blame is easy to place. For instance, a bag lady watches over the beach. She is an overblown caricature (with so much paraphenalia that she needs a huge shopping cart, and looking about as crazy as the washer-woman Carol Burnett did at the end of her shows), but with no real purpose. She makes mysterious soothsayings, but remains aloof during times of crisis. But is she a parody of a God-figure, or simply an underdeveloped character...
...looking for a person, or a thing? Is it real, or unreal?" It's all really just too stupid to be funny. The California cop tells his men; "Stretch your minds, tickle your brains, eat fish, get stoned-I don't care. We need ideas." This sounds like Jeffrey Bloom's screenwriting methodology. And, unfortunately, it doesn't work...