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...brother with whom he shared those dreams has attained immeasurably more. As a result, says Danny, "I have been living so long with 'Neil Simon's brother' " -- sometimes, erroneously, with "Neil Simon's younger brother" -- "that I'm thinking of changing my name." He adds, with the grin of a borsch-belt comic trying a little too hard, "That always gets a laugh." In fact, there is often a tinge of sadness in Danny's jokes about the situation. He admits, "The more famous Neil became, the more difficult...
...trouble." Watch Cray in performance and it is easy enough to see how he could still get in harm's way. He has a voice that sounds as if he gargles with Old Grand-Dad and a sly smile that looks like an open invitation. The grin does not come easy, but upon arrival it is ! bright enough to beam ships through a fog. All that fits nicely. The blues, after all, have always been music about trouble that is only going to get you into more of the same...
...performances are first rate, especially Liotta's, whose menacing grin and volatile temper make strong-willed Audrey's fear of him credible. But the final third of the film deviates too sharply from its initial tone, resulting in an ending one might expect from a Spielberg film--conventional and uninspired. Something Wild has all of the ingredients of an offbeat, interesting movie, but, unfortunately, the chef seems to have lost the recipe...
...Alto, Calif. In January 1951 he left San Diego on the U.S.S. Breckinridge along with Robertson and some 2,000 other Marines. The ship stopped at Yokosuka and Kobe, Japan; Robertson did not continue on to Korea. "My single distinct memory," McCloskey wrote, "is of Pat, with a big grin on his face, standing on the dock . . . saying something like, 'So long, you guys -- good luck,' and telling us that his father (Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson) had got him out of combat duty." Several months later, according to McCloskey, Robertson and five other officers who had been pulled...