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...happens exactly the way the song says it should. Some enchanted evening Charley Partanna sees a stranger across a crowded room and somehow he knows, he knows even then, that he must see her again and again. As in any good romance, that turns out to be more easily wished than done. Charley, played by Jack Nicholson in one of his boldest performances, is a faithful lieutenant in one of New York's best and oldest Mafia families, the Prizzis. Irene Walker, the handsome woman in the designer suit whom he loves at first double take, is played by that...
...underestimates her man. Charley's salient virtue is loyalty, and once committed to her, he will stop at nothing short of marriage. Nor does she understand that he is not as dumb as Nicholson funnily, bravely makes him look. Charley's shrewdness is on a slow-burning fuse, but it is very much a part of his tenacious nature. He is bound to discover that the career in which Irene is making the greatest strides is not her visible one, but her hidden one: hit person for the Mob, with a sideline that includes cheating the Prizzis...
...this seems like a flashback to the you-are-what-you-feel 1960s, there is a reason: Arquette, 25, is a flower child come to blossom. The granddaughter of TV Humorist Cliff ("Charley Weaver") Arquette, and daughter of a Second City improv artist and an activist poet, Rosanna played in the mud at Woodstock when she was ten and was taken by her mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then...
...always going to be successful, but everything's worked out great." Quarterbacks Elway, Todd Blackledge (Kansas City), Jim Kelly (Buffalo), Tony Eason (New England) and Ken O'Brien (New York Jets) all preceded Marino in the opening round, when San Diego passed him three times. Dolphin Personnel Man Charley Winner remembers that come the 27th pick, "Don didn't even turn to the staff and say, 'What do you think...
...fact, the result-Travels with Charley-was a charming little book. Benson might well have made his strongest case for Steinbeck as a rambling raconteur, or as a superb short-story writer. 77?^ Red Pony and The Leader of the People live on as classics for the loving precision with which they portray a young boy's painful need to grow up and an old man's passion to recall his youth. If only Steinbeck, an innately modest man, had been more modest as a writer, he might not have been destined to whipsaw himself between the pretentious...