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Only Alberto Tomba, the madcap Italian slalomer, is a household name beyond the Alps. But Moe, 24, and Aamodt, 23, seem poised to become the Jean-Claude Killys of the '90s: glamorous derring-doers capable of focusing world attention on the Alpine sport. Moe, so easygoing that he was yawning at the starting gate of both races, has an outdoorsy charm that could earn him as much as $1 million a year in corporate-endorsement contracts, according to industry insiders. "He is already capturing the hearts and minds of the American public," says Jon Franklin, a vice president...
Joan McMurtrey gives a very good and very natural performance as Pfeni, who, as Sara puts it, "is on a permanent junior-year-abroad." McMurtrey is properly zany and funny as the madcap youngest sister and even makes her relationship with Geoffrey seem believable. She is less convincing when agonizing over her career but that is partly the fault of Wasserstein, who, as always, shows more interest in people's relationships to each other than in their relationship to their work...
...MUDDLING THROUGH -- Recently paroled woman who has shot her husband returns to work at her family's madcap cafe...
...media finally becomes its own biggest celebrity, confessing and absolving itself in an orgy of publicity the way rock stars write tell-all autobiographies. But none of it is really taken seriously. Mel isn't an exploitative mogul, but instead a madcap guy who's a good friend to Brock. And Brock himself is tempted to regard this media catastrophe as half windfall, half big joke. What the hell, it's only a show. And the show must go on. In fact, it never ends...
...Rabbitt's Rectum") and Dante's Inferno in others (Bubbles falls through the concentric underwater circles of the Harlem River which is populated with the floating corpses of pimps, numbers runners and crackheads). At times, the novel approaches the off-Kilter horror of those classic with its manic, madcap parade of freakish characters...