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Incidents like the one in the Humana emergency room are not rare, despite federal regulations. This year, a Miami resident, Edwina Hayes, suffered with a bullet in her back for 13 hours as she shuttled from one South Florida Hospital to another before an emergency room finally admitted...
...chew on by itself. Nicolas Gage, a fine young actor who is making a career out of playing louts, here is H.I. McDonough. H.I. is a small-time hood and big-time loser who falls in love with the officer who takes his mug-shots, the stern but delicate Edwina (Holly Hunter). He and Ed are happy in their trailer park until they discover that Ed is barren. As H.I's extensive prison record prevents them from adopting, they have only one option: stealing one of the new Arizona Quints, five identical babies born to one Nathan Arizona, the king...
...Coens constantly joke with their subjects, breaking down any real interest in their fortunes with a barrage of irreverent yuks. H.I. is a moron, yet drawls with the locution of a frustrated poet; meanwhile the relatively stable Edwina turns into a maniacal parody of motherhood. "Ah love him so much!" she wails over the purloined baby, all of 14 seconds after clapping eyes...
Three passions consume the roiling romantic soul of Herbert I. ("Hi") McDonnough (Nicolas Cage). He has a fondness, though not really much of a talent, for robbing convenience stores. He loves his wife Edwina (Holly Hunter), a police officer he met on his frequent vacations at the local prison. And he shares her desire to create little baby His and Eds. Says Hi, in the daft and plangent narration that sets the tone for this terrific comedy: "Every day we kept a child out of the world was a day he might later regret having missed...
Aficionados may complain that not much is new in Nightingale. Like many people with long practice at being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life...