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...Jays struggle to realize their vaunted potential and atone for a notorious swoon three years ago, when they lost a 3 1/2-game lead in the final week. Such a hex would be no burden to Toronto's rivals, the Boston Red Sox, who groan under a curse of mythological heft. The Sox, as their minions are ever mindful, have gone 72 years without winning a World Series. At Fenway Park, a fan holds up a sign with nothing but the reproachful date...
...what words! In this era of postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy. Suzanne is ever crouching, like a stubborn, frightened child, behind the wall of her ironizing humor. As a coke-carrying member of the sensation generation, for whom "instant gratification takes too long," she is impatient with her wit; too easily she can turn a kind thought against itself. Just as easily, she has turned her life into a sad joke, blowing lines on the set and nearly dying from an overdose...
BLACK AND BLUE. Tony winner Ruth Brown seemed irreplaceable as the comic heft of this gorgeous Broadway review, but LaVern Baker (also heard on the Dick Tracy score) gets the same laughs and is, if anything, torchier. In other regards this celebration of blues song and tap dance is better than ever: the all-black cast has infused a newfound Harlem funk into the Busby Berkeleyesque glamour...
Whatever the message, Democrats still lack messengers of national heft ready to take on Bush frontally. Until now, he looked too strong to make an early effort worthwhile, and several possible candidates, including Cuomo, are running for re-election this fall. Cuomo argues, "It's still too early to concentrate on individuals. Ideas, positions, programs are most important." Yet Cuomo reports that the Democrats' new hopes have prompted a couple of prospects, whom he won't name, to sound him out for possible support. "They are starting to let the word out," he says...
...adult can find the game exhilarating -- for about an hour. Then it runs out of gas or fizzles out, as Gremlins 2 pretends to and ultimately does. At the climax, when other movies are accelerating, a dyna- movie must slow down in a vain search for emotional heft. By the end, viewers may be exhausted from information overload. Instead of leaving the theater with a rosy glow or warm tears, dyna-moviegoers feel like a James Bond vodka martini. They have been shaken but not stirred...