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...suckers. If there was an art to grindhouse movies, it was the art of the spiel. As ace exploitation entrepreneur David F. Friedman (She Freak, Trader Hornee) boasts in Eddie Muller and Daniel Faris' breezy, authoritative, gaudily illustrated Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of "Adults Only" Cinema (St. Martin's Griffin; 160 pages; $19.95), "I've got a high school education in making movies but a Ph.D. in selling them...
Then, with a runner on second, Princeton's Justin Griffin rapped an infield single to third. Jamieson hit the next batter. The next hitter doubled to right...
...that's precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer Robert Gordon have up and tried in Addicted to Love, and a fine--but not entirely uninteresting--mess they have on their hands. It offers us two voyeurs, one male and moony (Matthew Broderick's Sam), the other female and furious (Meg Ryan's Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiance, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura...
...seen as menaces of a more melodramatic, if not downright terrifying kind. What no one up to now has ever imagined is that people caught up in this quite common form of temporary insanity might possibly provide the premise for a romantic comedy. But that?s precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer Robert Gordon have up and tried in ?Addicted to Love,? and a fine -- but not entirely uninteresting -- mess they have on their hands. It offers us two voyeurs, one male and moony (Mathew Broderick?s Sam), the other female and furious (Meg Ryan?s Maggie). They meet...
...designer's dream, surely. But the less good news may be more important: the picture is murkier than images on most old-style television sets, and the Ivana-thin display costs, ahem, $25,000 (for the 42-in. incarnation, on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer). Nonetheless, TV analyst Allen Griffin says the set is a good omen. The breakthrough "plasma" technology that made these high-end boxes possible should push higher-quality, lower-cost versions into the price range of mortals sometime near century...