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...Lyne's visual style, with its grab bag of slick thrills and cheap tricks, is clever but unoriginal -- hack chic. And you needn't be a critic to get restless during the longueurs of the film's first hour. Just listen to the crowd. Until Fatal Attraction removes its mask of psychological drama to reveal a familiar horror-movie face, audiences can be often heard giggling in apprehension and + impatience. Something scary has to happen soon, they must think, because nothing is happening...
...jewelry, tarot cards, books on the occult and antique clothing suitable for mourning are all included in the inventory. People are greeted at the door by George, a skeleton in a coffin who holds a collage of costume ideas. The stuffed raven on the counter wears a Hallowe'en mask...
...playing a comic-pathetic roue in Divorce, Italian Style; a quiet-spoken syndicalist in The Organizer; a trio of Italian males in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. From these disparate parts emerged the full image of Mastroianni: a sensual, reasonable man, agreeably passive, remarkably resilient, lost and vulnerable behind the mask of bravado. A man who wins, or survives, through a weakness: his ironic understanding that his deceits fool no one and charm all. A Continental Cary Grant, full of comic suavity, but with no guaranteed Hollywood happy endings...
Feeling energized, Cosby returns from the track to his hotel at the wheel of a tan BMW. At a traffic light, a pair of adolescent girls stand rooted to the sidewalk, staring at Cosby. He mugs at them with that marvelously mobile mask of a face, flashing through half a dozen expressions, from idiocy to alarm, in as many seconds. The girls crack up, the light turns green and Cosby speeds away, chuckling with pleasure at his easy ability to make them laugh...
That session was followed by a rousing youth festival, where 50,000 onlookers brandished blue and green flash cards and roared as John Paul attempted to don a gaudy Mardi Gras mask. "I love it," gushed twelve-year- old Kim Harrigan of Port Sulfur, La. John Paul then traveled to an outdoor Mass; some 200,000 rain-drenched worshipers attended...