Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Theirs is a terrific comic duet, and writer Ken Friedman has backed them with a rich chorus of disapproval, including all the customers and salesmen also trapped in the showroom. Director Roger Donaldson, who has had his ups (No Way Out) and downs (Cocktail), is in his best voice here. It is the lower-depths snarl, angry and frustrated. It provides Cadillac Man with a steady bass line and makes it a rarity among recent films -- a comedy that is in touch with a recognizable reality...
...Faced Woman, Garbo exits a cocktail party and says brightly, "I look forward to my return." She never did return; this amiable 1941 comedy was her last film. For years she was reported to be mulling beguiling projects (on the lives of St. Teresa of Avila, Eleanora Duse, Dorian Gray) from eminent auteurs (Max Ophuls, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles). Eventually, the vacation became permanent, and Garbo's only pictures were those snapped on the fly by avid paparazzi. Now the camera was not a lover but a predator. Still, her withdrawal was a good and gracious career move. By refusing...
...undergraduate activity on campus. The student center proposed by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, if built, should be named after Roosevelt, rather than some oil-rich Texan couple or arms-dealing Iranian expatriate seeking the luster of the Harvard name to drop during fashionable Cambridge cocktail parties...
...Blues; his colleague from the Roger Corman B-movie Borstal of the '70s, George Armitage, is the writer-director. Funnier still, Armitage has one-upped his old pal. Whereas Demme's movies punctuate flaky comedy with explosions of violence, Miami Blues blends the two moods in a savory tropical cocktail. What makes the taste so tangy -- the rum or the cyanide...
BESIDES his ideas, Kemp's contagious enthusiasm, sincere compassion and unshakable optimism are personal qualities that Democrats--with the exception of Jesse Jackson--have lacked since the days of Bobby Kennedy. While cocktail party liberals talk about the poor, Kemp talks with them, face to face on his many tours through the most embattled streets of America...