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...against C.C.'s blandness, some of the other characters sparkle with life. The small atmosphere of the Loeb X is the perfect place to appreciate Pat, played up to sublime perfection by Sarah Burt-Kinderman. Her feather-headed neuroticism never dominates the stage--instead it bounces off the other characters with an ease and naturalness found only in real-life depressed Southern wives...
...people. But it forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse, according to Schickel, he misses novelist Carl Hiaasen's strength: setting mean-funny characters spinning through lowlife milieus. Yes, Burt Reynolds has some dirty, lively moments as a crooked, sex-starved Congressman. But the crazy, nothing-to-lose anarchy of people living below the margin and beyond the fringe is not within Bergman1s fastidious reach...
...originalist point of view; his only dependable ally is Clarence Thomas, who shared his philosophy in the first place. On the nine-seat court, Scalia is one of seven Justices chosen by Republican Presidents. Yet "he has this view of himself as embattled," observes Yale law professor Robert Burt, "always fighting the desperate fight...
...Bergman forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin--smart, spunky and a former FBI employee--is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse, he misses Hiaasen's strength: setting mean-funny characters spinning through lowlife milieus. Yes, Burt Reynolds has some dirty, lively moments as a crooked, sex-starved Congressman. But the crazy, nothing-to-lose anarchy of people living below the margin and beyond the fringe is not within Bergman's fastidious reach...
STRIPTEASE (June 28). It's not Showgirls, the trailer is at pains to tell you; it's Get Shorty: a slapsticky gangster comedy, but with plucky, bosomy single mom Demi Moore. And without Travolta. Burt Reynolds may steal scenes as a randy Congressman, but that's not why Columbia paid Moore $12.5 million for the film. Why do we get that sinking feeling...