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...NIGHT last week, in celebration of the holidays to come, Harvard decked the halls of the Freshman Union with holiday candles and wreaths. There were linen napkins and crystal bowls of nuts on the tables, and as I walked into the cheery hall I looked forward to a meal that might be a bit more appetizing than usual...
...local girl who tends bar at the Silver Dollar Lounge, puts it: "Gillette used to be nothing but a wide spot in the road. Now we got two shopping malls, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Cinema One, Two, and Three." They also got drugs, the local favorite being crystal meth, and their share of bar-room brawls...
...performances in this film are uniformly excellent. Billy Crystal's casual, off-hand humor is the perfect match for DeVito's likable, offbeat portrayal of Owen's schleppy innocence. Crystal manages not only to be funny but also to be an attractive, charismatic leading...
Writer Larry Donner (Billy Crystal) involuntarily screams "Slut!" whenever anyone mentions his ex-wife Margaret (Kate Mulgrew). She stole his manuscript and is gleefully living off the fame and luxury the book's acclaim earned her. Donner loudly proclaims to anyone who will listen that he wants her dead. At the same time, he suffers from a writer's block so intense that he is unable to finish even the first sentence of his novel or make love to his girl-friend Beth, played with pretty, intelligent understatement by Kim Griest...
...plane-crazy boy crash-dives into delirium; his dreams have singed him by flying too close, poisoned him with their oil and cordite. Alone with an ailing woman (Miranda Richardson), who stokes his first erotic fantasies, Jim looks up and sees the atomic blast over Hiroshima as a blazing crystal vision. Even at the end, when a plane drops bundles of Spam and Luckies like a Christmas pinata, Jim knows his perspective will be forever darkened. No child can see all this and hold onto childhood...