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DINER Directed and Written by Barry Levinson...
...MOST WINNING PART of this winning picture is the deeply felt characters that writer and director Barry Levinson has sketched out. Most complex, perhaps, is Fenwick (Kevin Bacon), whom we first see punching out window panes at a dance because on a whim he has just sold for five dollars the girl he brought. At first he seems like a typical 1950s tough, who is alternating between boasting and acting morose, playing sick practical jokes on his buddies, and finally flipping out at a nativity scene, stripping to his short and insisting on playing little baby Jesus. But Fenwick...
...football trivia quiz, the bridal bouquet falls on the table where the guys are sitting. The ending is just the right bit upbeat. These guys are going to grow up; they'll somehow make it out of this world all right. Just look at what happened to Barry Levinson--he got out and made it to Hollywood, where he put together this wise, introspective, totally four-star diner...
...having 2.2 babies. She will probably have only one child. One thing is certain. She will go at fertility, pregnancy, delivery and infant care with an aggressive elan. She will not become pregnant at the whim of the tides, but when she can clear her agenda. Says Richard Levinson, an Emory University sociologist in Atlanta: "Women in this age and economic stratum are saying, 'If I'm going to do this at my age, then I'm going to do it in style...
While trying to make sense of this whirling new world of savings, staff members at work on the story gave some thought to their own savings. Like many consumers, they developed mixed feelings about the new financial revolution. Marc Levinson of the Atlanta bureau wonders if "the time involved in shopping around for just the right investment plan outweighs much of the benefit." Staff Writer Edward E. Scharff, who wrote the story, has invested in money-market funds but still keeps a conventional savings account. Says he: "It's nice to know you have money in a local bank...