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...quick and to the point. Friends Neal and Brad (Will Provost and Matthew Schuerman) encounter Bevvy, the clinging woman (Karen Petrone); Alyssa, the Cold Pretentious Artist (Sarah Beck); and Lynn, the "mature" but power concerned puppeteer. All roles are performed soundly, with particular realism coming from a "golly-gee" Provost and the emotionally distant Beck. I'm not sure if Petrone's Bevvy is quite what was aimed for or not, but she does get a sense of "clingingness" across in any case. Schuerman impersonates the worldly beer-drinking buddy with recognizable accuracy...
Bradbury hit his high point with the title. The premise is neither fresh nor well developed, and much of the dialogue is written in the flowery gee-whiz pedantry that misled adolescent trekkies into thinking Bradbury was a real writer. Fortunately, many of the scenes in director Matthew Cohen's production are improvised; unfortunately, the rest are not, and the merging of 1940s what-if sci-fi with 1986 improv is unnervingly schizophrenic...
Gigli's eye, whatever it is checking out, is distinctly on target. If his label gives potential pronunciation difficulty (Row-may-o Gee-lee would be a reasonably safe try), the clothes, once worn, are instantly understandable. They indulge the body, bestowing a kind of inward elegance that the designer says "begins with how a woman today moves, how she expresses herself. Women today value their freedom; they do not want to feel compressed or crushed by what they wear." Like Ozbek, Gigli also studied architecture, but he works from individual pieces, not a grand design. The usual fashion practice...
...professor made a reference, a sentence really, about the early lasers and how they affected molecules, and I said `Gee, that's how I'd like to study Chemistry.'" Herschbach recalled...
...Gee that's, um, super," I said, expecting to hear how a nice Jewish boy from New York had turned to Jesus...