Word: dins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie is a unlikely comedy set in an early '80s London of racial tension and random sexuality. Sammy (Ayub Khan Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) live in a neighborhood that is the site of race riots and police brutality. They find no contradiction in basing their marriage on both "freedom and commitment." They do "get laid," but not together...
...performances are all excellent. Din and Barber manage to be bored without being boring. They create a sweet, if abstracted love that still exists between Sammy and Rosie, despite their lukewarm marriage. "Sometimes I need a little passion," she explains. Without sarcasm, he smiles, "Don't let me stand in your...
...guests of honor are three odd couples: Sammy (Ayub Khan Din), a Pakistani-born accountant, and his American photographer client Anna (Wendy Gazelle); Rosie (Frances Barber), Sammy's wife, a "downwardly mobile" English social worker, and her beau of the evening Danny (Roland Gift), a young black; and Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), Sammy's father, and his old flame Alice (Claire Bloom), a romantic Englishwoman. Is that all clear? No? Don't worry; these lives are not meant to be sorted out. Like real relationships, they are messy, incendiary, lingering past the pleasure point. Kureishi's women can be doctrinaire...
...showed up in the pressroom to announce a tentative agreement with the Soviets to reduce intermediate-range nuclear weapons. He had hardly finished when ABC's Sam Donaldson, CBS's Bill Plante and NBC's Chris Wallace simultaneously shouted questions at him for almost 20 seconds, creating an incredible din and an embarrassing spectacle. Reagan had little chance to respond to -- or sort out -- their jabbering. None of the correspondents would yield to the other, even though it was a live broadcast. Print reporters, no saints themselves, shook their heads in despair. Secretary of State George Shultz laughed in thinly...
...right new moves: he deconstructed his text and undercut it with the cadences of a Borscht Belt raconteur. But on the page, Goldman's wordplay seemed too much of a jape. It needed the expanse of cinema -- where on the late show Errol Flynn and Gunga Din are still storybook young -- to revive the poetry of fable. Now, 14 years later, he and Rob Reiner have got it smashingly right...