Word: maureene
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...Wildcats, traditionally a non-league doormat for the Crimson, may hold some surprises in store this season with the addition of several transfer students, including junior outside hitter Cari Sanders, junior middle hitter Bethany Cole and senior setter Maureen McCarthy...
Eddie Quinn turns to his wife Maureen and warns her against trying to figure him out. "You can't understand my obscurity," he says, "unless you have infrared vision." Actually, Eddie, the flailing loser played by Sean Penn in the new lower-depths romance She's So Lovely, is as easy to read as the funny papers. He loves the mouthy Maureen (Penn's own wife Robin Wright Penn) and will do anything to keep her or get her back. Penn, though, is a more challenging read: Studs Lonigan, say, rewritten by Brando's tougher kid brother...
...Lovely is the tale of two souls who are "mentally and emotionally retarded," Nick Cassavetes says. "They have one talent: they can love each other really good." Eddie, a small-time punk, is away when the pregnant Maureen is assaulted by a neighbor. Driven nuts by the news of her beating, he shoots a paramedic and is hospitalized for 10 years. In the interim, Maureen has married Joey (John Travolta), but that doesn't matter to Eddie when he gets out. He just wants his honey back...
...that a script by the impresario of improv, directed by his son, should become a tight, slight, goofy romance. As the lovestruck Eddie, Sean Penn denounces his wife's perfume as "a good smell to cover up bad smell." John Travolta, as the second husband of Eddie's beloved Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks, and the mouth of a randier Damon Runyon...
Director Nick Cassavetes is less a full-fledged auteur here than a cheerleader and referee, keeping the stars fighting without biting. Wright, like Maureen, is game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure...