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...echoed by many rock musicians, but hissituations as a member of the mainstream Smiley'sBone is much different from those of hard-core andpunk bands. These bands, centered around WHRB,Dunster and Adams Houses, with a strong off-campuscontingent as well, are taken care of by anenterprising senior named Doug DeMay, and hisorganization, the Harvard Independent MusicSociety (HIMS...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...have already seen the best parts of the movie if you've seen the preview. They are all scenes of "seven well-trained, heavily armed men" like the grocery store (where they radio to each other for price checks on produce) or the golf course (where Mrs. Carlisle orders Doug to fetch her ball). In several scenes Doug and Tess engage in ridiculously immature exchanges--in which Doug threatens to leave, and Tess tells him to go, but everyone knows that she doesn't really want him to. Phone calls from a President with a Clinton-esque Southern accent keep...
Thankfully, we get some diversion from this seemingly endless back-and-forth; however, it takes the form of a completely confusing kidnapping crisis, culminating in a fairly dramatic scene in which Doug finally gets to shoot a gun. Although this part of the plot has more action than the beginning of the film, it is so unbelievable and so hard to follow that the screenwriter would have done better to stick to the entertaining secret-service-meets-old-lady premise of this one-gag movie...
...trite as the plot is, the main characters rescue it from oblivion. The trenchcoat-and-sunglass-clad, play-it-by-the-book Doug Chesnic is perfect contrast to the odd but kind Tess Carlisle. Several political references also spice up the dull script. Some are to past administrations, like when Tess says that all Agnew and Johnson ever did was play golf: "If was a blessing for the country." Others allude to Bill and Hillary. When Tess watches old news clips about her husband, the audience learns her Clinton-like history relatively painlessly. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle met at Denison...