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...time out. "I feel most confident dancing," he admits, "though I've grown more comfortable acting in the past few years." Crystal, 38, is also in unfamiliar territory; this is his first movie after moving on from Saturday Night Live. Says he: "I keep asking Gregory if I'm funnier than Baryshnikov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1985 | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...editor Patty Simcox with similar reckless abandon. Missy Dubroff and Michael Kelley also shine in supporting roles as clique-members Frenchy and Roger. As for the play itself, well, suffice it to say that there are few deep philosophical insights. But the script flows well and is a lot funnier than one might think, remembering the 1978 movie...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Grease is the Word | 12/13/1985 | See Source »

David J. Cohen '86 was even more clueless when he received an envelope with a University of Miami t-shirt and two 8 x 10 pictures of orchids inside. "I realized it wasn't for me," Cohen says. "If my friends played a trick on me, it would be funnier--a dead animal and condiments...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Meet Your Alter Ego...Or Just Get His Mail | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...THEIR PART, the two actors portray the husbands to look, accurately, like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. In one of the movie's funnier scenes--the proverbial railroad station scene--the husbands cross paths en route to a train and realize they are wearing matching punctuation mark sweaters. Philippe's sweater has an exclamation point on it, which defines him perfectly as he rants and raves through the movie as a know-nothing know-it-all. Vincent's sweater, however, bears a question mark because his ranting and raving springs from his utter cluelessness. What a pair...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...Candy's performance in his first feature film is only slightly funnier than Jason Robards' starring performance in The Day After. Actually, the script of Summer Rental has more to do with this movie's quality than Candy's performance does, and one feels sorry for the rotund actor who tries admirably, but can't save this sagging film...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: No Help | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

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