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...Benicia, Calif.: "The committee gives me a source of support, a feeling that it is O.K. to be successful." Said Judy Hendren Mello, president of The First Women's Bank in New York City: "Often we get tired of being the only blouse at a black-tie business diner. It's mind-blowing to have access to high-level women...
...DINER Directed and Written by Barry Levinson...
...talk to them? A young man's sensible priorities- pro football, rhythm and blues, hanging out-were adolescent irrelevancies to his date, or even his mate. Then again, why bother? "You wanna talk," philosophizes one fellow in this terrific little comedy, "you always got the guys at the diner...
...fide resident of Hamilton, Davis can avoid the cliches so common to "mood of the country" pieces, the kind made most famous by Haynes Johnson of the Washington Post and regurgitated with such predictability come the New Hampshire primary. ("The waitress poured another cup of coffee at the Portsmouth Diner and talk, as it tends to at this time of year, turned to politics...") Davis has a terrific feel for the mechanics of social rituals and hierarchies, and the best of Hometown uncovers a city only an insider could know. He tells of a widely believed rumor linking the handsome...
...just the right bit upbeat. These guys are going to grow up; they'll somehow make it out of this world all right. Just look at what happened to Barry Levinson--he got out and made it to Hollywood, where he put together this wise, introspective, totally four-star diner...