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...liner fest from yuk-meister Neil Simon, The Good Doctor is a collection of Russian stories. Imagine a cross between Simon's Fools and California Suite...
This was no Bogart-Bacall-Robinson-plus-Claire Trevor and Lionel Barrymore powerhouse directed and co-written by action-meister Huston. This was no 1940s period piece, taut and tawdry and black and white all over. No way. Instead, Blue City is the latest in what modern-day Hollywood sees as the cool, hip, where-it's-at youth picture, more empty-headed boredom passed off as the happeningest style...
...while Sting's lyrics too often veer toward veiled inaccessible imagery or silly diplomacy ("Believe me when I say to you/ I hope the Russians love their children too"), the old Police-meister can still turn a nice phrase. In We Work the Black Seam, he finally gets the balance right; between simplicity, sincerity, a pressing issue and a catchy hook: "One day in a nuclear age/ They may understand our rage/ They build machines that they can't control/ And bury the waste in a great big hole...
That wasn't the case Saturday evening, 20 college juniors and seniors, three cases of Meister Brau, and a color television set packed into a medium sized living room. Nineteen of the students were invoking Sam Bowie's early demise, ideally at the hands of Georgetown (and Cambridge Rindge and Latin's) Pat Ewing...
There are many gags in the movie which work, not because of skilled turns by pratfall-meister Chase, but because of well thought-out and well-timed routines which ring true in the context of the movie...