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...DINER were set in some European capital, it would easily qualify as an "art film". It is a lushly filmed story of growing up, of five young men coming to grips with maturity, probably a little sooner than they would have liked...
...magica'; when the guys strut into the all-night Falls point Diner, order fresh fries with gravy, and sit down together, everything is all right again. To a large extent, this is a movie about that great American theme of just finding a place to be. Ever since Huck Finn set off on his raft to leave the complications of civilization behind. Americans have been searching for a place just to relax and be themselves. The diner is just such a place...
There are no women in the diner, or at least none with any speaking lines. Crammed into a tight booth and certain of their terrain, the guys can relax and laugh at the world around them. At the weird kid who memorizes all the lines from the movie Sweet, Sweet Success and recites them to no one in particular. At the enormously obese man who manages to consume all of the items on the left side of the menu--"that's not a human," someone exclaims, "it's a building with legs...
...little world is just how self-contained it all is. The men all listen to the same music and debate the merits of Sinatra vs. Mathis. They go to the same movie theaters on the weekend, date the same women, and of course all meet up again at the diner to compare notes...
...Fogg and the Carpenter Center, they met at Tommy's Lunch, the Mt. Auburn St. home of greasy french fries and late-night pinball. The artist, Lowell House senior David Kuhn, exhibited nine oil paintings and portraits in the first such show ever presented at the 25-year-old diner...