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Harvard enters the 1997 campaign primed for success. Although Harvard will be losing Tenser and co-captains Rachel Chernikoff and Meg Kassakian, the Crimson will return a strong underclass contingent with considerable playing experience...
...precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer Robert Gordon have up and tried in Addicted to Love, and a fine--but not entirely uninteresting--mess they have on their hands. It offers us two voyeurs, one male and moony (Matthew Broderick's Sam), the other female and furious (Meg Ryan's Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiance, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement...
...best-selling author isn't offering up one of his 800-page tales of intrigue before Labor Day, there are plenty of big thrillers in stores and arriving shortly. Three of the most talked about, Brad Meltzer's The Tenth Justice (William Morrow; 389 pages; $23), Steve Alten's Meg (Doubleday; 275 pages; $22.95) and Don Winslow's The Death and Life of Bobby Z (Knopf; 259 pages; $22), have already been optioned for the movies...
...precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer Robert Gordon have up and tried in ?Addicted to Love,? and a fine -- but not entirely uninteresting -- mess they have on their hands. It offers us two voyeurs, one male and moony (Mathew Broderick?s Sam), the other female and furious (Meg Ryan?s Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiancee, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement...
Even more enigmatic, Doyle's Stanley seems at first to be a top-dog boarder, criticizing breakfast with adolescent snideness and even menacing Meg, an easy target. Gradually, his nervous energy increases as he faces the impending threat of Goldberg and McCann. Finally, after shuffling attempts at lying and evasion, he is reduced to cowering, shell-shocked silence. Playing his character with the jumpiness of a dog that knows he's going to be whipped, Doyle turns out a finely shaded performance...