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The story of Jake Rubin (played with starched-collar sobriety by Peter Riegert) is straight out of a grade-B musical bio. Jake goes to work as a waiter but is soon writing songs for a gruff but good-hearted music publisher (Stubby Kaye). Eventually he is the toast of...
This year alone, Japanese investors have salted away $25 billion in American bonds. Fortunately for the U.S., that cash is financing a large chunk of its budget deficit. Yoshino cited a light hearted suggestion by Chicago Economist David Hale that the U.S. and Japanese economies should get married. "After all...
The name Evelyn Waugh comes unavoidably to mind. Wilson shares some of the comic master's ability to draw character in swift strokes. There are similar conversational nuances, inventive use of irony and a longing for an older order, especially spiritual. "Where there was light-from the headlamps of...
DIED. Alberta Hunter, 89, tiny, mellow-voiced blues singer and cabaret artist who in the 1920s became a star of low-life Chicago bars and in the 1930s of Europe's nightspots, then enjoyed a second successful singing career in her 80s; in New York City. She performed with...
But more striking than--its "message," are the film's many vignettes of small town life. Reminiscent of Benton's work in "Kramer versus Kramer," the film reveals scenes of family life with startling simplicity and intimacy. While some of the character types are hackneyed in conception--the good hearted...