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Simpson, the lead character, sometimes becomes overshadowed by the strong personalities of the couples, but he has got some great vocal cords to compensate for his dull Average-man character. And his steamy scene with April (Lesley Blumenthal), one of his girlfriends, provides some apprehensive and funny moments...
...assistant, Inspector Kate Miskin, provides a counterpoint to the Tory values exemplified by most of the characters on both sides of the law. Miskin has risen from a council-flat childhood to an imitation of chic affluence. A visitor to her sterile, modern apartment notes it is in "dull, orthodox, ghastly, conventional good taste." Like a Renaissance painter, James mischievously slips in a small, sharp portrait of herself as a "buxom grandmother, noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft or the size of her advance...
...this film, however, Durang's heresy is dull, and his perversions are pat. When this set of plays appeared in Dublin, the Irish, who always celebrate really good sacrilege with a riot, responded with a universal yawn. Some Boston Catholics are more uptight about Durang, and they make the controversy that sells the tickets. But controversy can't hold up a chaotic script whose absurdity is less than comic...
...Pick something, something that sounds dull...
...Some of these people I've had to arrest 20 times," Nunez says. He says he has had to cut the nets off about 50 boats in the past year, about half of them Cameron boats, the other half lake boats. "Shrimping is dull," Nunez then volunteers. "Alligator farming is the thing here now." He beckons a colleague who says, the economy the way it is, the farmers are switching over to alligators. They get their stock from the refuge there, which will hatch 9,000 eggs in the next few months. The refuge has a waiting list with...