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...there is a plot to this movie. Murphy plays Akeem, surprisingly liberated prince of the tradition-bound fantasyland of Zamunda, who travels incognito with his friend Semmi (Hall) to look for an equally liberated bride in America (specifically, Queens, N.Y.). The plot provides for a familiar satirical set-up: naive, good-hearted alien exposes by juxtaposition the follies of American customs. The plot is about as predictable as an Orioles game; it exists only as a framework on which to hang the gags...
...dribbled away in heedless, indiscriminate spending. Now the bills are coming due -- literally, in the case of a number of supersophisticated weapons systems nearing production. Meanwhile, the Defense Department has been forced by the overall federal budget squeeze to embrace a decidedly unfamiliar, and in its eyes hideous, new bride: austerity...
...bride wore a tan skirt, the groom sported white Levi's, and the minister was running for President. Jesse Jackson, who has lost none of his fabled flair for the symbolic gesture, readily agreed to perform the ceremony before a recent rally in Santa Cruz, Calif. The impromptu wedding was a media stunt, but Jackson insisted that his only goal was to publicize the plight of Allan Steen, the bride's father, who is a hostage in Beirut. Still, Jackson was beaming avuncularly when the camera crews tromped in to film the candidate, Bible in hand, blessing the happy couple...
...judge from Gay's accounts, too much has been made of Freud's cocaine dependency. As a young man he used the drug to chase the blues, relax on social occasions and, as he wrote to his future bride, make himself feel like a "big wild man." The substance did cause him ego problems when another physician beat him to the journals with his findings on the pain-killing properties of coca. His own paper on the subject was well received, but as he wrote in an 1884 letter to his sister-in-law, "the cocaine business has indeed brought...
...Topper to Tiny Alice. And to give Michael Keaton the chance to run productively wild. Keaton's Beetlejuice is a deliciously loathsome creature, whether shouting insults, lunching on insects or, in the film's climactic wedding scene, pulling a ring off a severed, shriveled finger and muttering to his bride, "I tell ya, honey, she meant nuthin' to me at all." Beetlejuice means something good: that imaginative artists can bring a fading genre back from the dead...