Word: caged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genre of classic romantic, comedies with duos such as Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, director Andrew Bergman has found a cinematic piece de resistance in Bridget Fonda and Nicholas Cage. While the characters they play are basically one-dimensional and the film revolves around a simple, funny plot, "It Could Happen to You" sands alone as the best romantic comedy of the summer...
...Nicholas Cage plays the good cop and sincerely sweet man, Charlie Lang, who leaves a lottery ticket as a tip to the waitress Yvonne Biasi, played by, you guessed, it, Bridget Fonda. You've probably seen the many trailers on T.V. on in the theaters so you know what happens next...
Charlie Lang is not a stretch for Nicholas Case. Lang is the distillation of many of Cage's former character roles, most notably "Raising Arizona" and "Red Rock West." Here Cage is the pure from of goodness, sincerity and generosity, attributes which were present, but hidden under the tough-guy persons of his other roles...
...busy to leave work and have their blood pressure taken." One of the few who did is Marika Toth, 40 and out of work, who sits smoking in the courtyard of St. Emeric's. She arrived at the hospital by ambulance after collapsing in her cashier's cage at the main Budapest electrical power company. Her blood pressure, she says, had soared to 220/160, "much too high for a woman of my age." It was down to a near normal level after hospitalization -- despite the sneaked courtyard smokes -- "but when I go home to my three children, it's sure...
...supported cultural haven that has presented the creme de la creme of contemporary American artists, writers, filmmakers, dancers and musicians to Parisian audiences. Over the years it has been a hangout for Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and has served as host of performances by the likes of John Cage, Samuel Beckett, Philip Glass, Steve Lacy and Merce Cunningham. In 1987 the center sold its dilapidated headquarters on the Boulevard Raspail and embarked on an ambitious building program in the Bercy region of eastern Paris. And that's where all the trouble really began...