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...language he called Oak (after the tree outside his office window). The veteran programmer wanted to get the microprocessors inside consumer appliances (TVs, VCRs, car alarms) to talk to one another--a programming challenge that required writing software code that was not only highly compressed but also virtually idiot-proof. Most consumers, unlike most computer owners, don't expect their toaster ovens to "crash...
...nonetheless perfectly frightening and funny. It's hard to decide whether or not it's Georgine Hall's costumes onher acting that make her so interesting to look at. Charles Levin, who also played Pa Ubu and Stephano this past year, reprises his role as an hysterical, loud, bumbling idiot (what range...
...schlepping me through life," Lewis said in 1992, "and I was his luggage." That's very sweet. But to think that Dean carried Jerry is the biggest joke of their career. Lewis, a genius at playing an idiot, was the brains of the act, Martin the gonads. So it surprised some that when the crooner went solo in 1956, he not only could get movie roles but could fill them handsomely. They were, to be sure, tailored to his talent--alcoholics and playboys--and in them he moved easily: as the cowardly G.I. in The Young Lions or the sodden...
...this one wins hot tears from its audience by imagining the worst things that could happen to decent people. It ties its women to the railroad tracks of caprice and invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls. Forest Whitaker, a laid-back actor who directs this slow-fuse movie, lets his divas strut, smolder and tell off the skunks they once loved. This ain't art--it's more like tasty junk food...
...familiar story of a quartet of young females looking for love and identity. Director Forest Whitaker ties his film's women to the railroad tracks of caprice and invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. But Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls, says TIME's Richard Corliss. "This ain't art -- it's more like tasty junk food...