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Although she falls into a dipsy blond mode a couple times too often, Arquette is definitely likable and quirkily humorous as Cassie. The transformations her character undergoes in Fool are more natural than those undergone by the ditsy Roberta in Desperately Seeking Susan, perhaps because they represent the growth of a person rather than the alteration of a female archetype...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

...anyone needed to ask. Riley blunders, rages and loves his way into Cassie's life, mirroring Cassie's insecurity with his own lifetime of self-doubt. "You'll never do anything worse than I have done," says Riley, to reassure Cassie. Together, Roberts and Arquette's romantic stumblings make Fool a enjoyable, user-friendly film...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

Finally, Gerber feels that we should modify our speech in order to facilitate international communication. It has never been the responsibility of any people or government to deliberately fool with its language in order to make things easier for foreigners. Would we deliberately restrict our vocabulary to use of idioms to that end, thus minimizing our own potential for expression? Of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...should be an occasion for throwing hats and blowing horns. This Friday marks the opening of two films that were made separately by directors who were once husband and wife. Evelyn Purcell's Nobody's Fool and Jonathan Demme's Something Wild have more in common than the eleven-year marriage of their directors. Both are romantic comedies about a normal guy and a kooky gal made in a style we might call funky folkloric. The narratives are ever willing to stop in their circuitous tracks and wait appreciatively for an eccentric character to idle on by. Trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperately Seeking Something | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked-belle character that the young Katharine Hepburn portrayed so majestically in Morning Glory and Alice Adams. Rosanna grates; the film galls. If Nobody's Fool doesn't get on your nerves, you don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperately Seeking Something | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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