Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN HARRY MET SALLY . . . he asked her: Can a man and a woman be friends without worrying about having sex? Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan spend a beguiling dozen years trying to figure...
...LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE. Next question: Can a man and a woman be lovers without having sex? In Steven Soderbergh's elegant, poignant, very funny film, the answer matters less than the interplay of four congenially tortured souls...
...sings an effervescent Buttons and Bows, and Eileen pours her own seething frustration into a passionate rendition of I Wanna Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces. The musky wisp of Ella Fitzgerald's Taking a Chance on Love helps explain the mother's fatalistic refusal to leave her man. With its irresistible airs in eerily ironic settings, Distant Voices, Still Lives is the first great sing-along horror movie...
This is nostalgia with the blinkers off. It understands that in family life everything is complicated, even a grown child's hatred for the ogre who sired him. The father here (Pete Postlethwaite) is a man capable of tenderness but more comfortable as the patriarchal tyrant. He refuses to share a drink with his son (Dean Williams) or a farewell with his daughter Eileen (Angela Walsh). He beats daughter Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) for wanting to go to a dance, and flogs his wife (Freda Dowie), stifling even her sobs with barked threats to "Shut up!" It is a brutality...
...room in an East Harlem flop mockingly called the Hotel Splendour. There, his music out of style, his body failing, he thrives on memories of songs sung and women loved. Yet, as Hijuelos conveys with art and sympathy, the Mambo King is to be admired and envied as a man who squeezed the juice out of life before life squeezed the juice...