Word: gooeys
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...head for the junk food. And the Square is replete with junk food, particularly that all-American favorite, pizza. Some people, you know, just don't feel their days (or nights) are complete unless they get to fry the roofs of their mouths with hot tomato sauce and gooey cheese. So for those fanatics, and even for normal folks who like to challenge their alimentary canals now and then, here's the scoop on pizzerias in the Square and environs...
...lost college love, coincidentally discovers her whereabouts, wins her briefly, loses her, then wins her for good at the last freeze frame. But the formula remains the same: earnestness, good nature and sophomoric romanticism substituted for wit, intelligence and style, with Brooks' music smeared over everything, like gooey frosting. The picture is shot in the manner of the TV commercials Brooks used to do, and his people display all the nuances we've come to expect from citizens who really care about the shine on their kitchen floors...
...Hearts of the West, works diligently to paper over the rough spots; he is an enviably good craftsman. Yet even he cannot rescue House Calls once it starts to become heartwarming. When a romantic montage concludes with Ann and Charley walking along a deserted beach, the movie becomes as gooey as You Light Up My Life...
...earlier work - that consummate rendition of energy by one of the master draftsmen ever to live in the U.S. - has softened to a re markable degree. One feels the removal of de Kooning's cubist under props, and it is a loss; the surface that remains is too gooey to sustain the flailing energies of brushwork and brusque disjunctures of color that de Kooning loads on it. Time and again, one is brought up short by a reflection that never occurs in the presence of his work from the '40s and '50s: that these paintings...
...director's clear-eyed approach is further enhanced by the sharp acting of his cast. In the film's dominant performance, Voight shows Luke's pious arrogance as well as his tenderness; if the character were too sweet, he would be as gooey as Gershwin's Porgy. Fonda, though unconvincing in Sally's pre-liberation scenes, ultimately brings her character's horrifying internal conflicts to the surface...