Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every actor's portrayal is significant. And it is here that Brighton falls short. While Josh Frost does have his good moments as Eugene's brother Stanley, he usually looks like an actor acting. His gesticulations often seem forced and unnatural. Likewise, Robert Herzstein, who plays the boys' father Jack, often seems to be merely saying the lines without inhabiting his character. His demeanor as an authority figure is sometimes effective, but it often seems as though Herzstein himself is not convinced of his own portrayal...
...Jack and Stanley have two father-son talks--one regarding Stanley's near loss of a job, and one regarding Stanley's gambling away his salary. Admittedly, the latter is a weak moment in the script, but the slow, word-minced, unemotional exchange between Frost and Herzstein reflects neither the son's penitence and rededication to the family nor the father's pervading concern about his overseas relatives and the possibility that they might be coming to live in his already cramped quarters...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
...Michael S. Dukakis and President-elect George Bush met yesterday in Washington to mend fences after a bitter run for the White House, two of their top strategists, Roger Ailes and Jack Corrigan, and handlers for all the major candidates in Campaign '88 descended on Cambridge for a closed-doors conference sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...