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Unfortunately, in the hip, personality conscious 80's, married couples don't get back together after they've been divorced. They go their separate and sometimes adulterous ways, as does blue-collar steel worker Harry Mackenzie (Gene Hackman) in Twice after he meets up with Audrey (Ann Margret), the new vamp/bartender in town, on the night of his fiftieth birthday. (Of all the unromantic places in which to meet up with one's future lifemate, a run-down neighborhood bar takes the cake...
...Gene Hackman dominated the film with sturdy professionalism. Dillon's characteristic sincerity and appeal come through in the close-ups at the beginning and end of the picture and in a funny, well-developed romantic interlude with a sexy young spy. On a more curious note, all the women in the film look alike, and one particular cut--from a shot of the girl spy to a matching angle of an older woman--dad's former lover--comes off as a jump-cut where the character suddenly ages 25 years...
...ability to flesh out a character in a few deft strokes has made him one of Hollywood's most versatile leading men. But as his paintings attest, Gene Hackman, 55, enjoys working on canvas almost as much as on celluloid. During the 1950s the actor first took up the brush as an art student fresh out of the Marines and resumed in earnest about eight years ago. Though he finds painting "more serene" than acting, and has more than 100 oil landscapes and portraits to his credit, Hackman has neither the desire nor the time to mount a gallery show...
White said the field's popularity has also risen among the roughly 270 undergraduate concentrators, and that Hackman would likely offer a lower-level course in organizational behavior to meet student demand...
...Hackman offer, extended last June, followed a year-long search