Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heat No. 1: Lane 2--Yale, Lane 3--Princeton, Lane 4--Navy, Lane 5--Penn...
...Heat No. 2: Lane 2--Harvard, Lane 3--Cornell, Lane 4--Dartmouth, Lane 5--MIT, Lane 6--Columbia...
...Heat No. 1: Lane 2--Yale, Lane 3--Penn, Lane 4--Princeton, Lane 5--Dartmouth, Lane 6--Boston University...
...materials are certainly saccharine. The lovers not only are adolescents but possess near genius IQs. Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), the son of a Parisian cab driver, is a movie buff with the auteurist sensibility of a Sorbonne professor and the computer know-how of an M.I.T. grad. Lauren (Diane Lane), the stepdaughter of an overseas American corporate executive, reads Heidegger for kicks. These two meet, go steady, then flee their meddling parents by traveling by train with Olivier from Paris to Venice. Hokey as it seems, this film's Romeo and Juliet want to pledge their eternal love by kissing...
...plays five times better than it sounds, thanks to a genuinely funny script, gorgeous locations, fine acting and direction that never wallows in sentiment. As Hill demonstrated in his similar and wonderful The World of Henry Orient (1964), he understands smart young people and knows how to cast them. Lane, a pretty refugee from Broadway's Runaways, is a completely unmannered actress who cuts to the guts of every scene; she is a major find. Though Bernard has too many punch lines and must speak in a second language, he rises to Lane's level...