Word: execs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Macaroni, true to its name, is very much like Mama Leone's spaghetti. The plot starts off solidly enough. Robert Traven (Jack Lemmon) is an American exec on a business trip in Naples, where he had a tour of duty during the Second World War. The stressful monotony of his job has forced him to forget those younger, happier days, until his old friend Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), intrudes on Robert's busy schedule to remind him of old times. Says Antonio to Robert, "Youva become arid, lika desert." Thus begins Antonio's program of re-hydration...
Staying together, say therapists, depends partly on tempering expectations. % The traditional husband-wife relationship may no longer satisfy many people, but equally unrealistic are those who strive to become Supermom and Ultra- Exec. "You're not going to be able to go as far in your career, have the kind of marriage and be the kind of parent you would like all at the same time," warns Atlanta Psychologist Michael Berger. "If you've got tremendous amounts of energy, go for two of the three. But you're not going to get three out of three...
Hattie is tall, thin, gorgeous, Waspy, a Bloomingdale's commercial for poise. Her boyfriend is a married marketing exec who calls her "Beauty"; her mother is a trail-blazing career woman (Jo Henderson) who thinks Jean Harris got a bum rap. Janie is an underemployed writer, short, sad-eyed and Jewish, with an attitude problem ("Know what I resent? Just about everything!") and a rather complacent identity crisis ("I very badly want to be someone else without going to the trouble of changing myself). Her boyfriend Marty (Chip Zien) is a kidney specialist who looks like a Muppet rabbi...
...Newman dwells under the curse of the Pretty Man. Remember Robert Redford as the prison warden in Brubaker? Newman's even less credible as a cop; he has "gentleman jock" written on his face and if you passed him in Grand Central you'd think he was a slick exec commuting from his Manhattan office to his small mansion in Darien...
...Brothers are one of the first acts signed to new label Fast Forward (owned by former Capricorn exec Frank Fenter...