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...with a one-night stand") decides to head for the robust UCIA beauty. Since Alison is on her way to swap law articles with her similarly situated boy friend, the pair end up hitching their way to California together, a la It Happened One Night. Somewhere between playing a madman psychotic to scare a lecherous truck driver off of Alison and trying to identify the three categories of junk food. John Cusack manages to make the film into a showcase for his improvisational comedy talent...
...writing in 1970, Thompson, the drug-driven madman journalist who lived in Louisville (or "Looahvull," to say it properly) for his first 18 years, may have seen a darker side of the event, so seemingly out of place in that turbulent time...
...frightening, pitiful yet majestic, Halpern's performance is haunting. Christopher Moore is the "lucky paranoiac" who gets to play Marat. Suffering from a skin disease, the feeble and pinched looking Marat crouches in a bathtub. His fervent speeches sound simultaneously noble and pathetic as he bleats them in a madman's wavering voice. Although sympathetic and believable, Moore lacks the personal force of a rabid activist. On the other hand, Nick Lawrence displays great haughtiness as the infamous Marquis, swaggering about and scorning the other inmates as "lost revolutionaries." During, his soliloquies, however, he seems too coldly contemptuous of political...
...Chris' chief antagonist. Peter Weller plays Sam with scary perfection. Weller, who most recently portrayed the brain suergon-rqckstar-world hero in Buckaroo Bonsai, switches easily but believably from a dreamy drifter to a dangerous madman, with much of the same charge seen in last year's Star...
This, not the madman of legend, was the real and visionary Van Gogh. The notion that his paintings were "mad" is the most idiotic of all impediments to understanding them. It was Van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if "sanity" is to be denned in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis. All the signs of extreme feeling in Van Gogh were tempered by his longing for concision and grace. Those who imagine that he just sat down in cornfields...