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...same police force. If you're a steady watcher of NYPD Blue, you get the impression that concern about a backed-up criminal-justice system in New York City must be a thing of the past. Watching perpetrators spill their guts to Detective Sipowicz, you can envision a forlorn-looking New York trial judge sitting on his bench in an empty courtroom, hoping that this will be the day when a defendant comes...
...stormy. Her first husband, Harold Nicholas of the dance team, was absent and faithless; their daughter Lynn was brain damaged and had to be institutionalized. Her second marriage, to Las Vegas sharpie Jack Denison, yanked her into bankruptcy. Her trysts with Preminger, Jurgens, Peter Lawford and others left her forlorn. Her nightclub career dipped; after Porgy and Bess (1959), good film offers dried up. Dorothy was yesterday's darling...
...most memorable characters of the entire show, however, has to be Neale's Lulu. Although Lulu herself spends most of the play looking forlorn in the background of the stage, her few lines--a deft mixture of church-revival-type monologues and cute childish comments--almost speak for themselves. The strength and sweet simplicity Neale lends to the character make one almost believe that this over-sexed, yet helpless-looking character may very well save everyone in the show...
...those steamy summer weekends, when a battalion of bustling, big-budget Hollywood movies hits the theaters--and many of them tank. But don't feel sorry for those forlorn moguls. Just because a movie stumbles in the U.S. doesn't mean the rest of the world should be spared it. In fact, the voracious appetite for American celluloid in Europe, Asia and South America is turning many a domestic dog into a foreign blockbuster. Herewith a sampling of recent films that enjoyed just such overseas turnarounds...
...life, the jilted who stalk and harass their former lovers are usually seen as forlorn creatures, objects of pity, if not downright contempt. In the movies (Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction), they are more often seen as menaces of a more melodramatic, if not downright terrifying, kind. What no one up to now has ever imagined is that people caught up in this common form of temporary insanity might possibly provide the premise for a romantic comedy...