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...boys themselves probably won't put in an appearance in the flash, though Pope says they've all been invited. And it probably would be a letdown anyway--they're not the same old boys any more. As Pope says, "it wouldn't be as good if they got back together again. They've all grown in different directions. It just wouldn't be natural...
JOHN WITHAM and Shells McCarthy, as the romantic leads, work well together. William often sounds more like an announcer than an actor, but every once in a while he exhibits a flash of comic timing. ("Is my face dirty, dear," Constance asks him prissily as she gets ready for her wedding night, "or is it just my imagination?" "Your face is clean," he says with a smirk, "but I don't know about your imagination.") McCarthy, as the arch and witty but secretly vulnerable Kay--a role that was written for Gertrude Lawrence--has a some what more difficult...
John plays down the crazy flash of his in-person appearances. "Since I'm not your rangy rock idol in skinny leather pants, I wear flamboyant clothes. People shouldn't take the clothes and the dyed hair so seriously. Honestly, it's just a joke. I'm affectionately parodying the rock-'n'-roll business by saying 'Here it is, let's all have a laugh and enjoy ourselves.' " There have been no acid-rock-style riots at his concerts. Somehow, right from the stage, he manages to get across...
...lumpy seven-foot sea. Yet no great crises occur: the snorkeling on the coral (especially in the Tobago Cays, an underwater reserve) is among the best in the Caribbean; jack and pompano bite in the shallows, the sun shines all day and plops into the ocean with a green flash straight out of a tourist leaflet; and on island after island the beaches are empty, not yet speckled with condominiums. Privacy is the reward of bareboating-not to mention a new and addictive confidence about sailing...
...film the texture of everyday life. Just as affairs in reality are a series of fits and starts, with little coherence while they are experienced, so Paul and Adriana's passion and despair, their conversations and lovemaking, occur in non-linear succession, separated from one another by the flash on the screen of the day's date and the unsettling sound of random, atonal notes played on percussion instruments...