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Toyota has its own reason for smiling. All this is a long way from the company's modest U.S. debut in 1957, when the first Toyopet Crowns--woefully underpowered tadpole-shaped vehicles--were unloaded from the freighter Toyota Maru in Long Beach, California. Yet even as Toyota improved its cars and gained market share, the company remained reluctant to build them on American soil. Not until 1985, when Honda and Nissan were already producing cars in the U.S., did Toyota decide to build the Georgetown plant. The company has since been at pains to avoid such stereotypes as those spoofed...
...everything from Uncle Vanya to several of Alan Ayckbourn's most provocative comedies (A Chorus of Disapproval, Man of the Moment), Gambon is known here mainly as the star of Dennis Potter's admired TV mini-series, The Singing Detective. Now he's making his long-overdue U.S. stage debut, in a Broadway production of David Hare's Skylight. All the ingredients are there for stage magic; unfortunately, too many of the wires and trapdoors are clearly visible...
This. Hanks' feature-film debut as writer-director, That Thing You Do!, tries to infuse his personality in a story set in a time of innocence: small towns, state fairs, the modest dreams of being in a band and kissing the lead singer's pretty girlfriend. But the transplant doesn't take, because Hanks hasn't given his 1964 fable of would-be Beatles (or Byrds or Searchers) the solid bass line of story sense...
Harvard student Blackmer makes his professional debut with "Snappy Crayons," not only dancing in the show, but also assisting in the choreography of several scenes, including the very funny "Gunslinger." "Gunslinger," the highlight of the second act, features Blackmer and Whiteside in a mock gunfight. Pantomiming guns with their hands, they climb on and over each other to a country western love song by Patsy Cline. The romantic undertones of the dance complicate this humorous scene, but even these more serious suggestions could not alter the general mood...
Murphy employed junior quarter-back Jay Snowden as the punter Saturday, who experienced some difficulty in his debut...