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...fact Theresa Russell's pouty, luscious incarnation of the blonde bombshell is about the only reason to stay with this film after the novelty of its first half hour wears off. As Marilyn in her pre-platinum youth, Russell looks more like Kathleen Turner than Norma Jean Baker, but what's a little makeup among sex symbols? Besides, she so dominates her every onscreen moment that it's difficult not to chastise the superhumanly chaste Einstein for declining her offer of a roll...
...there is a more delightful tourguide though, it has to be Daphne Zuniga Dewitt doesn't wish to break harsh news too abruptly, but Mother, perhaps you'd better see. The Sure Thing (Sack Copley Place). In real colleges all across the country, real students are enjoying themselves with luscious blondes or fleeing to Southern California. One identifies with Henry V and Jimmy Stewart, but Dewitt is positively drawn to John Cusack as the woebegotten freshman in this charming slice of life instead of running down pedestrians or searching for his identity. Dewitt saw this movie and wanted to hitchhike...
...ostensibly to buy cigarettes, the police swept in and charged him with the murders. They later arrested another of the victims' daughters, who allegedly had promised to pay her then boyfriend West to commit the crime. But West apparently never got his hands on any money--or on his luscious decoy. "He's ugly," Paris said, "and I'm not into add-water-and-stir romances." She added, "We had a date to meet his mother. I guess that...
Nothing is that clear-cut in the world of these stories. Shacochis shows a keen awareness of lush disparities. He evokes the allure of a village marketplace, "the air luscious with the smells of spices, of frying coconut oil and garlic and cumin, the scents of frangipani and lime." The counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast...
...gang of Jewish punks assembles in their Manhattan ghetto, to 1933, when the gang's leaders, Noodles (Robert De Niro) and Max (James Woods), tumble into betrayal, to 1968, when the old men meet to act out their perverse codes of honor. Leone filmed the story in the luscious, mythic style that he developed in his popular "spaghetti westerns" with Clint Eastwood and perfected in Once upon a Time in the West (1969), an outsider's glorious, besotted tribute to classical Hollywood cinema. This time, though, the characters are not grand, strutting archetypes. Noodles and Max, their henchmen...