Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slew of new shows that focus on not-so-swinging singles. Single dad James Naughton copes (tediously) with a teenage daughter in CBS's Raising Miranda, and Richard Mulligan mugs (insufferably) as a middle-aged widower in NBC's Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers). But this satire of motherhood in the fast...
...about in character to fill in the historical blanks. In a room labeled "Cinema Goes to War," for example, "soldiers" roll about in trenches. Nearby is a majestic staircase canopied by MOMI's own high-camp Erecthyon: six sculpted muses of the silent cinema (Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish and Rudolph Valentino) serving as columns in a temple of the gods...
...Popes watched sitcoms instead of CNN, they'd see themselves there too: warm and puddly on The Wonder Years, starched and smarmy on Family Ties. Like The Wonder Years, Running on Empty is haunted by wraiths of the '60s. Like Family Ties' Alex Keaton, Danny is a decent kid with dreams that trouble his ex-rad mom and dad: Alex plans to be a yuppie Ivan Boesky; Danny wants to study piano at Juilliard. And like both these shows, the movie tiptoes away from political specifics to nestle in the capacious bosom of no-issue humanism...
...Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, the very model of a white-collar slime mold: he's a thief, an accessory to murder and a meanie to his mom. He can't even admit he has a drug problem -- cocaine and alcohol -- until a tough-love therapist (Morgan Freeman), an A.A. veteran (M. Emmet Walsh) and a nervy fellow addict (Kathy Baker) help him see the dark before the light. Some of the early scenes ring as inauthentic as the Philadelphia accents; each supporting junkie pushes too hard, as if he were part of an Actors Lab experiment that failed...
...American girl is beauless. "Dating is a disaster for me. I don't know how to, and I don't get the point. You're not really friends, you're not really lovers. Besides, I never go anywhere. For a while I dated ((Actor)) Michael Keaton, whom I met at Fireside, my local grocery store. So I guess I'll just wait to meet somebody at Fireside again...