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...stormy night in Transylvania, a young honeymooning couple, Brad (Bill Miller) and Janet (Abigale Haness), suffer a car breakdown near a castle ruled by a bisexual drag queen named Dr. Frank 'N' Furter. In his lab, the evil doctor, leeringly played by Tim Curry, has fashioned a blond centerfold playmate, Rocky (Kim Milford), who is sort of male. Frank wears torn black mesh stockings, black garters and black lipstick. Rocky is clad in something smaller than swim trunks and larger than a jock strap. He tenses his torso and biceps like an old Charles Atlas ad plugging rock...
Apparently she was recruited to lend a little weight to a mean, shallow and indifferent enterprise. The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a listless nervous-breakdown farce, adapted by Neil Simon from his play about the traumas and indignities of living in Manhattan. Jack Lemmon, unwired and wrung out, appears as an lid executive who loses his job and proceeds to crack under all the usual New York tensions, from unruly cab drivers to walls that crack like eggshells, from vicious neighbors to violence in Central Park. Bancroft plays his wife, loving and impatient and reasonably brave, who sees...
...there are moments when Bancroft breaks through. They are fleeting, almost incidental, but when they come upon us, they are a melancholy reminder of what we are all missing. Most memorably there is the instant when the wife first realizes that her husband is moving beyond ill temper into breakdown. "Oh God, Mel," she says, "I'm so sorry," comforting him in a rush of feeling that is the truest thing in the movie. ∙Jay Cocks
...keys to the game appeared to be the lack of the usually balanced Radcliffe scoring punch, the breakdown of Radcliffe's defense against Yale's last break, and the team's failure to control the back-boards...
Never mind the occasional barks. The infectious beat of Dixie Spider Man and some fancy guitar acrobatics on The Driver's Engine - an electrified country breakdown - are well worth plugging into...