Word: jinx
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...Harvard men's lacrosse team has picked up the Princeton jinx...
That's not as bad as being on the cover, but it's still a jinx. Should be good for six interceptions...
Jinsed's basic premise is that a petty gambler named Howard (Rip Torn) has somehow managed to put a "jinx" on a young blackjack dealer. Willy (Ken Wahl), and is now chasing him from casino to casino trying to break the bank. Whenever Howard smokes a certain magically lucky brand of cigar, he's sure to win any hand Willy deals him Howard is a rather sleazy character with a seemingly infinite wardrobe of polyester Stetson hats, and this is his first chance...
Harnessed to what is not a terribly fresh scenario to begin with, the preposterous premise of the "jinx" certainly can't pull a reasonably adult audience through a full-length feature film. Unfortunately, the redoubtable presence of Bette Midler can't either. She doesn't get a chance to act seriously, as she did in The Rose; for can she turn the whole thing into a high-camp parody, as in her wonderful stage shows. The material is simply too bland to get hold of, Even Midler's trademarks, the peroxide hair and fluorescent clothes, don't glitter as they...
...from the minds of any Lynah Rink Rat was a Harvard comeback possibility Cornell's Roy Kerling, Mark Henderson and Dan Duffy scored three straight Big Red Goals following Crimson center Phil Falcone's first goal just 3:20 into the game, and it looked like the Lynah Rink jinx was kicking up its heels again...