Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party who's got that talent. Nick and Nora Charles, it's repeated often, were modeled on Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman. That spirit made it as far as the book, but the film's a whole different deal. For one thing, it's hard to imagine Hellman being cute by wrinkling the nose she once threw herself from a tree to break for an excuse to have it reset: afterward, she said, "it looked different but not different enough." As much in evidence as the celebrated leads William Powell, Loy and Asta are a bunch of little performances which...
...sense of timing, Debra Smigel delivers the best performance of the night as Dr. Olson, the pompous social scientist who is helpless without her Ph.D. Jackie Osherow has some fine moments as the fruit-crazed Goneril, and Sarah McCluskey as Adeline pronounces some less than stellar lines with a cute Marilyn Monroe pout...
...hardly a period-character who isn't included in Larry's group of artsy Village friends. His girlfriend, Sarah, is a Jewish princess who sleeps with him even though she is restless for a less loitering life. Robert is a suave, narcissistic poet-playwright: Anita, suicidal; Bernstein is a cute black homosexual; and Connie, the old maid, everybody's best friend. Although they spend hours together in heavy intellectual raps, when something important happens--the suicide of Anita, Sarah running off to Mexico with Robert, Larry getting a role in a Hollywood movie as a neighborhood tough--none of them...
Starving Actors. McGuane apparently hoped to bring off an antic, melancholy character study about Key West drifters and grifters. It turns out hopelessly muddled. Characters cut up, act cute, come on strong ("That's not the wind-it's souls in purgatory"), then have a good laugh on themselves. No body seems to have any connection to anyone else. They all stumble along in the drenching sun, not bothering about much of anything. The general drift-and one needs a memory of the novel even for this-is that a man makes his bones not by cheating death...
...extended dialogues. A less immediate danger is that Doonesbury's following may shed the passive disillusionment and cynicism that Trudeau satisfies so wittily. Already some of Doonesbury's younger followers are finding the strip a bit bland and irrelevant. "The Establishment has decided that Doonesbury is a cute little expression of how clever kids are," says Harvard Senior Tom Hubbard. "It's been co-opted, and we're getting tired of it." Right now, however, that "we" is a tiny and humorless minority...