Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jan (Glenn Close) and Nick (Mandy Patinkin) are a San Francisco couple whose state of yuppie nirvana is suddenly and supposedly humorously disrupted when Jan's body is taken over by the ghost of a flapper starlet named Maxie Malone...
Maxie, we learn, was killed in a car wreck just as her movie career was beginning, and now that she has control over Jan's body, she tries to make a comeback...
...real comedy is supposed to occur when Maxie and Jan struggle for use of the body. When Close is boring and dull, we know that Jan is in control; when she is loud and obnoxious and talks like an odd synthesis of Mae West and Betty Boop, we know Maxie is in the driver's seat. There are some funnyish scenes when Maxie takes over at inopportune moments, like when Jan is at a society fundraiser, or when she is in bed with Nick, but her character is simply not interesting enough to keep these scenes alive...
...Jan and Nick's friendly, eccentric old landlady, the late Ruth Gordon plays the same role she has played since Rosemary's Baby, although she does not chase Close around with mandrakes and bat sperm in this picture...
Last week Gray announced that he will step down as chief executive on Jan. 1, when President Robert Daniell, 51, takes over. Gray, however, may continue to control the $16 billion aerospace conglomerate. He owns 2.5% of the company's stock, and will remain chairman for the foreseeable future...