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...Stakeout, Writer Jim Kauf devised a plausible, original and engaging premise. Detectives Lecce and Reimers (Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez) are a pair of laughing policemen assigned to keep watch on the home of Maria McGuire (the delicious Madeleine Stowe), former girlfriend of a psychopathic criminal (Aidan Quinn) who has lately, bloodily escaped from jail. Somehow Lecce is snookered into love with the lady he is snarking on. Disguised as a telephone repairman, he insinuates himself into her pad, her bed, her heart. Dreyfuss is terrific in the role, abrupt and vulnerable; Estevez is adroit as a man comically appalled...
...Kennedy assassination and the rise of Bob Dylan, Kaufman adds a little gratuitous sociology. The occasional stylization of the movie's violence is equally jarring: the gang members are at times so shrouded by theatrical smoke and shadow that they start to look like the pod people in Kauf man's Invasion of the Body Snatchers...
...such others as Of Mice and Men, My Sister Eileen and Guys and Dolls), he spoke like a young mother. But he terrified waiters, suffered fools badly, and did not welcome familiarity from underlings-or from overlings either, as Critic Alexander Woollcott. his boss when Kauf man was on the drama desk of the New York Times, reported with asperity. "I can testify," said Woollcott. '"that he was always careful to treat me like dirt." Folding Tens. In his plays he could be fey and even sentimental, as in Yon Can't Take It With Yon, the saga...
Growled Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott: "Here's one for you, Adolf." Then he pressed a button. A mile away, 59 concrete buildings of the I. G. Farben's Kauf-beuren gunpowder works were blown to smithereens by G.I. dynamite charges...
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