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Though Martin had a few early scraps with Clint Courtney, Billy Hunter, Jimmy Piersall, Larry Doby and Roy Campanella, they were as preliminary as Jack Dempsey's first fights under the name Kid Blackie. In the Ring book, Martin's official record begins in 1957 at New York City's Copacabana nightclub, where Yankee Teammates Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Hank Bauer and Johnny Kucks were toasting Martin's 29th birthday at the same time that a Bronx man named Edward Jones was celebrating the end of the bowling season...
...contrast between the effort to give art to the city and to protect it from its citizens is a hard one to reconcile for Tom Dempsey, the man responsible for painting and hanging seventeen streetside works of art over the last two years. But then the whole notion of being a professional artist is something that Tom, who signs his work with the mysterious, yet homey signature of `Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist', finds troubling...
Sure, both star Patrick Dempsey, a personable young actor whose star is evidently in ascendance. In both movies, he was a sweetheart. Truly touching stuff. In both movies, women melted at the magnitude of his niceness. In both movies, his hair was twisted into stange shapes with the aid of sizeable quantities of mousse. And finally, in each movie very silly lines were said. Oh, hell, I'll save that...
...could have been worse. Given the role, Dempsey puts in an acceptable performance, and D'Angelo looks decent, at least. The producers spent a lot of effort making the movie look authentic, but it really just doesn't matter...
Phil Alden Robinson, the writer-director of In the Mood, does not seek even the modest parable. He is all amiability recounting the true tale of "Sonny" Wisecarver, the 1940s California teen who twice eloped with older women and became a media sensation. Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam and Beverly D'Angelo agreeably impart the message that adolescent sexual energy can cheerily compensate for lack of sexual sophistication. But one cannot help feeling that there is a wicked craziness in their odd couplings that escaped a directorial eye looking merely for goofiness...