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...long ago, skating meets had some of the intimate charm of horse trials or country fairs. Even today, no skater -- except one in the throes of a postdefeat pout -- is too big to sign autographs, accept a stuffed teddy bear or stop and chat with a thigh-high champion of tomorrow. Most practice sessions are like high school afternoon scrimmages: come along and stay behind afterward to hear from the source what it feels like to sail along the wind in a grand spread eagle. The end of all that may have begun last week...
...Pygmalion success story who parades into the Kittredges' home and fools them all, rapper/sitcom star Will Smith performs admirably. His portrayal is honest and sincere and it is easy to see how even New York's snobby elite could be taken in by his easy style and charm. Smith may be a little too gentle and clean-cut, however, to be thoroughly convincing as the conniving and street-smart criminal who trades sexual favors for the training and personal information which enables him to con the Kittredges...
...tragedy is that softball, for all its charm, is not as good a sport as baseball. Baseball's longer distances allow for more bizarre plays, more errors, more excitement. There is less grace in softball. With distances so short, speed and timing...
...with Julian Holloway's cutesy capering as Eliza's debauched father, Dolores Sutton's vamping as Higgins' mother and sets that make the Covent Garden flower market look like a Florida condo in mid- construction and render Higgins' study fit for a Vincent Price horror flick, Chamberlain shows calculated charm and wit. He sings better than Rex Harrison and looks terrific. His best scenes are with the normally bland Pickering, whom Paxton Whitehead makes droll...
...corrupt long before Norma got to him. In Los Angeles, Alan Campbell's selling out is much more of an emotional journey. As Betty, the budding screenwriter with whom Gillis has a professional rebirth and fleeting flirtation, Judy Kuhn can do no wrong. As Max, George Hearn finds charm and humor in an all-but-monocled Prussian stereotype...