Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best-loved players in the history of the national pastime, is dead. Tributes to the Yankee Clipper, who in his time won the hearts of a generation of Americans, have poured in from across the country. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig hailed DiMaggio as "the personification of grace, class and dignity on the baseball diamond." Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould, eulogizing DiMaggio, called him "the glory of a time that we will not see again." President Clinton, in a statement, said, "this son of Italian immigrants gave every American something to believe...
...slams on the brakes. A spacecraft has landed on the nearby Enter Martian--a red, three-eyed creature who sees O'Hara recovering from the shock and, realizing he has landed on planet earth, chews on a piece of blue gum enabling him to transform into Christopher Lloyd. Grace, the spoiled boss's daughter whose glossy lipstick, tight apparel and wonder-bra breasts reek of superficiality, pulls up in her red sports car equipped with a "Dad's Girl" license plate. Emanating her usual "don't-you-want-to-slap-me" self, she asks O'Hara "why the hell...
After O'Hara brings the miniature spaceship home, the viewer gets a taste of the physical comedy that serves as the film's saving grace. The alien's spacesuit, possessing a life and personality of its own, startles O'Hara in his living room by slapping him on the behind. O'Hara seizes a golf club and chases the suit around the room. Tumbling over the furniture while Zoot does summersaults, O'Hara finally ends up cracking himself with the club only to wake up attached to the ceiling. The scene, although pure, unoriginal slapstick, provides a good laugh...
...Daniels's poor performance in making the scene come alive and injecting emotional reality into his character. In another instance, Daniels does not make a shift in his character's thinking believable when he suddenly realizes that he loves Lizzie, a co-worker played by Daryl Hannah, and not Grace. His acting comes off as dry and contrived as the plot...
...crit quibbling of this approach at times quickly becomes tedious. Still, these cerebral arguments pale beside Malcolm's acute character studies, little gems of quirk and nuance like an eccentric bolo tie on a dreary elderly gentleman that leavens the confusion of the story with humor and grace...