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...possessive affection for Simone, trying to please her aristocratic tastes in a sad, bumbling, endearing way, sipping tea instead of Bloody Marys. In one scene, a waiter approaches him, "Bloody Mary, right?" "No, I'd like a pot of tea," George replies in his wonderful Cockney accent. "Earl Grey or Lapsang Soochong?" "No, tea," he says...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: It Does da Vinci Proud | 7/15/1986 | See Source »

...Ferris's dog, and beaten up by his younger sister. Jones, who spends much of his time leering with pathological hatred of Ferris, gives a fine performance as the hapless dean. Of the other members of the cast, Alan Ruck is superlative in his supporting role, and Jennifer Grey is also good as Ferris's bratty and jealous younger sister...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing Hookey | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...Edward VI. Nevertheless--castles, moats, 16th century costumes and all--the film sinks at its worst moments to the level of teenage fantasy. Bonham Carter, small and dark haired, with huge brown eyes and a face that suggests a miniature in an antique locket, plays the doomed Lady Jane Grey, who lost her life at 16 in an attempt to prevent Henry's Catholic daughter Mary Tudor from succeeding to the throne of newly Protestant England. The actress, who was 18 when the film was shot, projects an astonishing intensity as the unworldly Jane. Her own aristocratic background may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

High above the street, in Massachusetts General Hospital's Grey Building, behind steel double-doors and space-age airlocks, scientists are busily searching for the "cure" to a deadly disease that may kill hundreds of thousands before it is conquered. The malefactor is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, known as AIDS...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Fighting the AIDS Virus at Harvard | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...that is all glitz and no substance, all money and no meaning--he is, of course, an arbitrageur who lives in an apartment packed with high-tech goodies. We get a hint of his life when Basinger's character searches his closet to find rows of perfectly tailored charcoal-grey suits and, natch, a Harvard Magazine (hey, Harvard grads, you too can live like this...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Poor Form | 3/21/1986 | See Source »

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