Word: conti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foundation, which gave $500,000 of the firm's profits to charities each year. Four years ago, the foundation sold Altman's to B.A. Realty Associates for a price estimated at more than $100 million. The investors then sold the chain, without the real estate, to two accountants, Anthony Conti and Philip Semprevivo, who quickly cut costs and revived the store's merchandising by turning over some departments to savvy outside retailers like toy seller F.A.O. Schwarz. After losing $17 million in 1985, Altman's earned a $3.5 million profit the following year...
...when even the Church is skeptical of miracles, it's not easy being a miracle worker. Especially if you're an atheist. Just ask nonbeliever Vie Mathews (Tom Conti), whose own divine favor--or is it just luck?--is making his life miserable...
MUCH OF the burden for keeping the comedy light falls on the shoulders of Conti, the reluctant miracle worker who doesn't believe in miracles. Fortunately Conti, a veteran of many a similar off-the-wall role, proves up to the task. His wry facial expressions, his bedraggled stray-dog appearance and his dry, brittle voice seem appropriate for the exasperated yet ever-jocular...
...that was the good news. Of this trio of movie plays, Beyond Therapy brings the most severe disappointment because it held the most promise. Christopher Durang's 1981 play was a deft and rancid parody of psychobabble. The comely cast includes Jeff Goldblum, Julie Hagerty, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti and Christopher Guest. Robert Altman is an estimable director poised for comeback. He even had an idea about opening up the action: by setting this postromantic comedy more or less simultaneously in Manhattan, with its memory of Philip Barry penthouse sophistication, and Paris, locale of many a clockwork farce about...
...direction and script also assume secondary importance when Conti is on the screen. Director Rick Rosenthal starts the film off slowly; the first quarter of the movie up to Palmer's arrival in Paris bears an embarrassing resemblance to three or four well-known television sitcoms. But Paris allows him to hit his stride, and move the movie along at a comfortably fast clip. The script by Jim Kouf and Jeff Greenwalt would not, by itself, bust any guts, but then again, with Conti on their side it does not have...