Word: lovesick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long, gentlemen. It's been good to know you. Grownups to a man, you gave the campaign a depth of field, a seriousness and a connection to history it would never have had without your lovesick perseverance. You also made it fun. And by the way, you were wrong about the country not loving you back, in its fashion. Didn't you catch the look in the lady's eyes when she threw her arms around you, knowing all the while that she was going to marry someone else? If only she hadn't said that...
...lovesick teenage android living in a lonely space station where he assists his creator--an insane, Nazified professor played by Klaus Kinski--on "Operation Cassandra" (the ultimate android!). As the film opens, Max is hanging around the space station playing video games, listening to rock-and-roll, and watching video tapes of black-and-white Hollywood feature films from the last century. When a female voice comes on the monitor, sending out an SOS and requesting permission to land, Max becomes really excited--a real live woman. Without asking the boss for permission. Max allows the damaged spaceship to dock...
Like many things, including certain lectures, Moore's performances seemingly run in groups of three. After an initial series of successes in Foul Play, 10, and his masterpiece, Arthur, Moore fizzled in Six Weeks, Lovesick and Romantic Comedy. (A biblical satire, Wholly Moses, remains in a class, or lack thereof, all by itself) with any luck, then, Unfaithfully Yours marks the start of a new series of successes. Currently shooting Best Defense with Supercomic Eddie Murphy. Moore has given at least one reason here to expect still more laughs...
...lower animal kingdom. There is, for example, the seagull that invades the dining salon, flapping everyone into hysteria. Then there is the matter of the Emir's pet rhinoceros, languishing in the hold and giving off a most unpleasant stench. Seasick, any reasonable person might suppose; lovesick, the opera crowd prefers to believe, bringing the beast into their own frame of reference. Would that the basso profundo could hypnotize the creature with his low tones as easily as he does the chicken from the galley, on which he demonstrates his powers...
...resolution of he is silliness is solidly entertaining. The seven maids primp and pose throughout all their numbers, including "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We," and the serious self important soldiers march about the stage singing things like "When I First Put This Uniform On. "Led by Colonel Calverly (John Hoyoker), Major Murgathroyd (Daniel Pantano) and the slightly effeminate Lieutenant. The Duke of Dunstable (Michael Calmes), we watch the soldiers try to lure the ladies away the soldiers try to lure the ladies away from their poets. Finally figuring that if you can't beat them they transform themselves into aesthetically pleasing...