Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...News with a sitcom ellipsis, not a movie exclamation point. The movie ends, like the '80s perhaps, in resignation and anticlimax. Maybe no one believes in happy endings anymore, or even in endings. Maybe, after Bakker and Hart and Iranamuck, people are too cynical to care who gets the girl. But it is good to know that craftsmen like Brooks can create compelling, pertinent folks like Jane, Aaron and Tom. Can we hope that they will spin off into their own high sitcom? That would give us something, at least, to look forward...
...lucky few who actually are able to find their true sexuality--and not repress it, like most heterosexuals--there are a range of avenues at Harvard for expressing their new sexual identity. Traditionally, one of the most popular means of expressing one's sexual identity is to find a girl-friend or boyfriend, hard though this has always been for Harvard students...
Tied in with the tragicomic tale of Mickey and Bobby is the story of the shocks that an oil boom puts on a small city's system. As Doreen (Priscilla Smith), a local girl who tends bar at the Silver Dollar Lounge, puts it: "Gillette used to be nothing but a wide spot in the road. Now we got two shopping malls, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Cinema One, Two, and Three." They also got drugs, the local favorite being crystal meth, and their share of bar-room brawls...
...cast does a fine job with these down and outers, though there's a silly tendency to slide into Southern accents for comic effect. The players from the ART's new Institute are also sharp, especially Bernadette Wilson, who plays Jody, a girl who abandons Tucson for a biker-ex-con named Sonny (Michael Balconoff). Unfortunately both the script and the actors, particularly John Bottoms, occasionally lapse into caricature. It's here that the production loses good opportunities to be compelling and truly memorable...
...book's acclaim earned her. Donner loudly proclaims to anyone who will listen that he wants her dead. At the same time, he suffers from a writer's block so intense that he is unable to finish even the first sentence of his novel or make love to his girl-friend Beth, played with pretty, intelligent understatement by Kim Griest...