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...fair to say that both sides are negotiating in good faith and that we're close to a deal," said attorney Kerry R. Lyne '52, a Pudding alumnus who is negotiating with the University...
Zeckhauser and Lyne refused to comment on the amount the University would pay for the building, which the city values at $1,090,200, or on the length of the lease the University would give the club. But according to one source, the potential deal would give the Pudding, the nation's oldest college club, a 99-year lease and about $1 million in exchange for the clubhouse...
Charlie Brown (Steve Lyne), is a clod who fails at everything he tries, and then screams "Aaaargh." But in spite of his many shortcomings, he's also a human being--just like YOU, kiddies--and that makes him (and YOU) special and life just dandy. Lyne churns out an uninspiring but passable performance in a role that doesn't leave much room for inspiration...
Basinger, whose performance with Sam Shepard in his and Robert Altman's Fool for Love demonstrated that she should be above this stuff, is, thanks to Lyne's directing techniques, able to show the whole range of angst-ridden emotions from fear to guilt-ridden pleasure. But who could fashion a believable role from a script that requires her to suffer the ignominy of being trapped atop a ferris wheel at one moment and to prance down the boardwalk with Rourke as if nothing had happened at the next...
There is little sense to anything either of these characters does. Unless I've missed some major development in human relations that obviates the need for character consistency and development, Lyne's Weeks is a laughable failure in even approaching an understanding of the human condition, Yuppie or otherwise. We are left with two lifeless corpses, animated models who are unable to show any more emotion than they do on the pages of a glossy magazine...