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...went to Los Angeles. Nancy Dolman, my girlfriend of several years and now my wife, was pursuing a record deal there. One day I got a call from Paul Shaffer, who was in town and on hiatus from Saturday Night Live. He wanted us to visit him at the Sunset Marquis hotel, where he was staying. Bill Murray and John Belushi were stopping by too. We'd have some drinks and hang by the pool...
...dope and bad hairstyles. An increasingly disheveled Suzette still hangs on to the old lifestyle, while her pal--they aren't really sisters--has gone rich, suburban, uptight. Suzette visits Vinnie, looking for a loan, and manages to loosen up both her and her family. Writer-director Dolman's comedy isn't exactly a barrel of emotional surprises, but its great cast underachieves admirably. There are worse ways to pass 94 minutes. --By Richard Schickel
...outsider, Fred Dolman, joins them. He is an annointed “Hard Rock Cafe VIP” who grew to know Berry well while he worked there, and decided to follow him to his new locale...
...Dolman buys the last round for the group, who are roudily and good-naturedly joking with Berry, reminiscing on the old Grafton days, and gossiping about the more recent opening night party, to which Berry had invited them...
Somehow it works, in part because of the way director Howard keeps his crowded frames abustle with activity, in part because of the sheer indomitability with which his leading characters are endowed by the actors and by writer Dolman, but mostly because the movie takes enlivening chances with its material: precognitive dreams, for example, and near death out-of-body experiences. Flirtations with magic realism are not at all what we expect to find in epic cinema...