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...Linda Griffiths as Lianna does the lonely and pathetic look so well that we don't believe she could make such a radical change without a second thought. One expects, even wants, to see some moments of remorse or soul-searching. Lianna feels uncomfortable in the "My Way Tavern," a lesbian bar, for only a few minutes--soon she is dancing naturally, though not well, with the other women. In the bar she notices, sure enough, a member of the PTA; thus, director John Sayles points out unoriginally that anyone...
John Sayles' Lianna (rhymes with Indiana) means to engage the middle-class emotions, then turn them subtly against the audience's expectations. Lianna (Linda Griffiths) has a sweet moonface and blue eyes that always look as if they have just left off crying. She has every reason to be sad: her husband, who teaches film at the local college, is an adulterous grouch; her two children do not offer quite enough challenge; her life is in limbo. So she tumbles into a lesbian affair with her night-school professor, Ruth (Jane Hallaren), to whom fond Lianna...
...potential audience of 1.2 million, only about 130,000, or 11%, opted to pay $10 to watch the show, which stars Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, George Rose and the rocker Rex Smith. Moreover, in its first weekend, the movie earned a meager theater box office of $255,000, as well as the enmity of exhibitors, who resented Universal's undermining of their customary exclusive on movie premieres. Says Mitchell Neuhauser, associate executive director of the Independent Theater Owners Association: "Exhibitors don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...
While millions of Americans watched Linda Ronstadt rock through Get Closer on last week's Grammy Award show, millions of others were tuned to a distinctly different beat: the gentle, vivid pulsations of a human heart. For the first time ever, major surgery was broadcast live from an operating room. But whether the performance was a credit to medicine or show biz is a matter of some debate...
...Sukarno has whipped up anti-West feeling to a fever-pitch among the masses. But Hamilton catches the eye of the most fascinating character of the movie. Billy Kwan, a diminutive Eurasian photographer who seems to be the most well-connected person in town. Kwan, played by a woman, Linda Hunt, takes a liking to Hamilton and gets him a prized interview with the leader of the Indonesian communists who are about to launch their doomed coup of 1965. An unlikely team is born...