Word: larkins
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...counterpart is the tongue-tied Gregory Larkin, a professor of mathematics at Columbia, superbly played by the scene-stealing Jeff Bridges. An academic and a pragmatist rather than a romantic, Gregory is totally overwhelmed by anything remotely related to sex, and literally swoons at the sight of a short skirt or a doe-eyed co-ed; Elle Macpherson, in a cameo as his ex-girlfriend, reduces him to a whimpering puddle without doing much more than blinking and smiling. Devastated by the failure of all his sexual relationships, Gregory decides that the sole route to true happiness is through intellectual...
...rich--nouveau spendthrifts aside--are careful not to act rich, and the poor think they're middle class, and therefore have no hesitation about aspiring above their stations, this plot doesn't work anymore. Instead, we have items like The Mirror Has Two Faces, where the thing keeping Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) apart is, of all things, the celibate ideal...
MOVIES . . . THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES: Two Columbia professors, Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand), are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise -- how to put this gently? -- a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married, his resistance...
...mystery of National and American League players meeting for the first time. By next spring, interleague play, if approved by the players union, will be a regular part of baseball. Baltimore's Cal Ripken will have seen NL starting pitcher John Smoltz's best fastball; Cincinnati's Barry Larkin will know the break on AL starter Charles Nagy's curveball. Some players and fans, of course, fear the allure of the game may wear off if matchups like these aren't saved for All-Star games and the World Series. As for this year, some of the usual star power...
...with very little real drama. That missing ingredient, however, has been whipped up in generous gobs in both prosecutor Christopher Darden's In Contempt (ReganBooks; $26), written with Jess Walter, and this week's offering, defense attorney Robert Shapiro's The Search for Justice (Warner Books; $24.95), written with Larkin Warren. There are no bombshells here, but both lawyers take the reader on a breathless you-are-there ride, evoking once again all the emotions of that fevered epoch in this country's history. Which emotions, of course, depends on whose Rashomon-like tale you are reading at the time...