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...story goes on, with brief escapades involving Kmart, a bagel shop, Bridget's old flame, a hurricane and oh--did I mention stripping? Often, we are left wondering just how long two days can really...
...glare at me if I commented about how much I hate neon-colored paper. I could eat in the smoking section of a restaurant without having a waiter usher me out, saying, "I'm sorry, ma'am, but we've been instructed to never let you light an open flame in this establishment." My mother would start talking to me again. I could become successful, maybe even famous. But even if I won the Pulitzer Prize, I would still be introduced as, "The Pulitzer-Prize winning writer who once set a kiosk on fire...
There's Bonnie (Meg Ryan), the woman used by Eddie and Mickey as their own sexual welcome wagon. There's Darlene (Robin Wright Penn in a reprise of the troubled slut she portrayed in Forrest Gump and Moll Flanders; I miss The Princess Bride), the old flame passed between Eddie and Mickey who counters Eddie's infidelity with her own in mock independence. There's Phil (Chazz Palminteri), the struggling actor who drowns his artistic voice in a persistent whine about his own worth. And there's weed, Valium, fast cars, big houses, sex, sex and more...
NAME: PAUL ("SIR") MCCARTNEY AGE: 56 OCCUPATION: Keeping the Beatles' flame alive; writing symphonies BEST PUNCH: Accuses BBC of banning late wife Linda's newly released song because of profane lyrics; buys ads in papers saying parents, not radio, should decide what their kids hear...
They broke up 20 years ago, victims of the apocalyptic burnout endemic to '70s rock bands. Now Strange Fruit is back for one fractious nostalgia trip to make a few quid and see if the flame still burns. This retro comedy, cannily written by The Commitments' Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, gives such fine British actors as Bill Nighy, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail and Bruce Robinson the chance to strut, scowl, sing some jaunty tunes (by '70s survivors Mick Jones, Steve Dagger and Jeff Lynne) and define what it means to be mates in a middle age the rockers...