Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough for him to do these things at 21, he can explain them later." It has occurred to Gooden to ask himself, "Are you really this good?" But the answer is classified. "You shouldn't dwell on that," he says. "It can scare you." With no declared goals except to "stay hungry," Gooden pledges, "I'll never say I'm satisfied. I can still get quicker to the plate with men on base." Stealing was an early problem of his: base runners were a novelty...
Despite its moralizing, the film moves along quite well with the pace of a thriller and occasional elements of a gangster flick. Except for a few moments of sentimentality when Johnny tries to resist a regression to his former "bad boy" ways, Laundrette sports all the signs of a low-budget masterpiece...
...Swoosie Kurtz in what may be the best performance of the season. Kurtz barks and mewls like a dog, she wanders vacant-eyed like Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, she throws things and lapses into catatonia, all the while comprehending everything that goes on except how to avoid being packed off to the asylum of the title. She too has yearned for celebrity. In what seems a metaphor for the state of all the characters, she can hardly get herself noticed in her own home. W.A.H...
...public eye. The Ohio-born actress made national headlines when she moved into the mansion with Nebraska Governor Bob Kerrey, 42, whom she had met while making Terms of Endearment. Last week she was in the news again, after marrying Actor Timothy Hutton, to the surprise of almost everyone except, of course, Hutton, plus 25 relatives and close friends who attended the Jewish ceremony at Big Sur, Calif., overlooking the Pacific. Though Winger, 30, and Hutton, 25, had known each other for a couple of years, things got serious four or five months ago. The day after the wedding...
...father, who lacks a high school diploma, harangues his family about education and ambition. The mother (Judith Ivey) wants her children to choose for themselves. He makes his points with force; she wins hers with guile. Precious Sons resembles a "well-made play," much like those William Inge wrote, except that Furth emphasizes reconciliation and renewal rather than catharsis...