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Armand Assante, who starred in "Mambo Kings," plays the role of Ned Ravine, the dull-witted lawyer-detective and object of his adulterous wife Lana's (Kate Nelligan) murderous schemes. Sherilyn Fenn stars as Laura, Ned's devoted secretary who is blindly in love with him. She competes with the provocative, Sharon Stone-like seductress, Lola (played by the sizzling Sean Young), for his attention...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: Fatally Funny | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...another scene, Lana conspires in a public park with her lover (and car mechanic) to kill Ned in the one absurdly unlikely way that would triple her life insurance collection. To prevent other park visitors from overhearing their plot, they start speaking in Yiddish (with subtitles for the audience). After a few sentences are exchanged, the man sitting next to them on the bench indicates that he has been following the whole conversation by reading the subtitles...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: Fatally Funny | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...THIS KNOWING AGE, WHEN EVERY CITIZEN IS FAMILiar with the seasonal anomalies of box-office grosses and Nielsen overnights, the willingness to believe in old-fashioned show-business fairy tales is low. Today, instead of Lana Turner we have Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator: Behind Late Night's Cinderella Story | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...mother's old lovers and is having a fling with a drag queen who impersonates Becky. When Becky returns to Spain after years in Mexico, the lover-husband dies too. Welcome back to the loopy world of Pedro Almodovar. In this deadpan update of the old Lana Turner weepie Portrait in Black, the writer-director of Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! tosses his usual salad of mad love, acrobatic sex and cross-dressing, and garnishes it with a chorus line in a women's prison. High Heels careers like a runaway circus train over the rickety trestle of melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Motherhood Is a Drag | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...Besselink was just too much. She tallied 18 points on the night, and teammate Lana Thomas collected 14 points and 11 rebounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basket at 0:07 Lifts Hartford Over Women Cagers, 62-61 | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

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