Word: demis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pals and the two young women they fancy, the play was rancid, funny and dead-on-target. So why would Screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue want to turn it into a Pillow Talk for the nouveau quiche set? Now the story is about a nice girl (the exemplary Demi Moore) and a pretty guy (Rob Lowe) who triumph over their busybody buddies (Elizabeth Perkins and the splenetically funny Jim Belushi) to form a profoundly modern relationship. The movie is so intent on ingratiating itself with its audience that it betrays the meaning of its source. One of Mamet...
Better yet, these deluded upperclassmen say that the administration teaching us to be better blow-offs. If not for the Harvard schedule-makers, we'd have to do all the work during the semester, like the demi-humans in Cabot Library. The administration's helping us be non-students. Okay. And that was veal you had last night...
...gleefully leaps at every opportunity to torture Gilbert Griffiths' Allardyee is towering Gluttony, who constantly stuffs his face with chocolates, wafers, seal paines and even his beloved Betty And Normington's Lockwood is personified Snobbery, who looks and acts exactly like John Gielgud. At all times, these societal demi-gods keep their aristocratic buttocks firmly over the lid of Gilbert's private hell...
...Laura (Demi Moore) enters the picture as a block in Charles's viewfinder: she's standing in front of a boat he wants to photograph. In person, she stirs Charles about as much as if she were his lens cap, or maybe a free. But somewhere between the wharf and the darkroom, her photo becomes something more. Out a mix of photo dots. Lawra becomes line Love, the antuhesis to the cheap sex hunger pains of Charles's brother...
...year veteran of General Hospital. Demi Moore plays Laura with the depth of a pinup poster. She is at her best when actually posing while Charles snaps her picture against one San Francisco landmark after another. Let her open her mouth and the pinup becomes a comic-strip character, the perfect addition to Judge Parker land...