Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while, a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...
...have some fries with this one? The gratuitous sequel introduces a new and unfortunate cinema franchise: McNeil Simon's. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon '47 reprise their classic roles as messy Oscar Madison and natty Felix Ungar in the sequel to Simon's comedy classic, but the result is as flat as a Quarter Pounder without the cheese. The excuse for a plot, the erstwhile roommates' road trip through California en route to their children's wedding, can't support the lack of the genuine humor that characterized the original. And the stale performances make this movie about as palatable...
...itself to Titanic-mania lest it miss out on any extra publicity that might be gleaned from advertising the fact that Harvard people drowned too. Clicking on the "Titanic" category reveals surprisingly little information, but they sink to such depths at to capitalize that revoltingly standard image of Jack clutching Rose and staring into the distance. The exhibit reveals not only the commonly known Widener-Titanic connection, but also the lesser known Straus-Titanic link...
TIME national correspondent Jack E. White has covered civil rights issues for 30 years
...With reporting by Jack Epstein/Alto Paraiso