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...sense fighting with the city," said J. Michael Larkin, one of the owners of the two-restaurant chain. "We're going to move forward, get past...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: Border Will Close For 3 Days | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Cincinnati--Assumes Barry Larkin is healthy. Third baseman Willie Greene has finally stepped up this spring. Need Reggie Sanders to recover...

Author: By Bryan S.lee, | Title: Spring Has Sprung, So Let There Be Baseball | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, But They Don't Have Sex | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE WAY SHE ISN'T | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 11/15/1996 | See Source »

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