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Prickly as porcupines, Deborah and Nick Fifer (Bette Midler and Woody Allen) wander the aisles of a shopping mall that probably exceeds Ralph's palace in square footage, confessing infidelities and trying to patch up a marriage that only this morning looked as solid as the British monarchy. They are constantly distracted by the consumerism bustling around them and by a mime (Bill Irwin) who is as nosy as he is silent and maybe the most amusing thing about the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Golly, Your Majesty | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...wouldn't be King if he could help it, Goodman redeems what might have been just another high-concept comedy for the party of humanity. Despite the fact that they are working a much more subtle idea -- an attempt to resolve a private crisis in an impersonally public place -- Midler and Allen rarely attain believability, let alone sympathy, as the troubled pair of getters and spenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Golly, Your Majesty | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...become our designated Everyman, a Ralph Kramden for the '90s but without the splenetic splutter of Jackie Gleason's immortal creation. An intelligence, a sensitivity he can't quite articulate, just possibly a slight sadness, lurk behind Goodman's eyes, and they ground everything he does in reality. Midler, on the other hand, is our great show-biz floozy, and Allen personifies the anxious urban intellect. It is hard to insert their screen personas into the kind of normal, middle- class lives they are supposed to inhabit here. They require highly stylized vehicles in order to do their best work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Golly, Your Majesty | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

Joining Collins in the competition for record of the year were last year's winner, Bette Midler, for "From A category were Melissa Etheridge, Distance;" Sinead O'Connor for "Nothing Compares 2 U;" M.C. Hammer for "U Can't Touch This;" and Carey for "Vision of Love." Midler won in 1990 for "Wind Beneath My Wings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collins Racks Up Grammy Nominations | 1/11/1991 | See Source »

...writer Ben Margulies, and Wilson Phillips' Chynna Phillips and Carnie Wilson, also picked up nominations for song of the year, a songwriters' award. Prince also was nominated in this category for "Nothing Compares 2 U," the hit he wrote for O'Connor, along with Collins and Julie Gold for Midler's "From A Distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collins Racks Up Grammy Nominations | 1/11/1991 | See Source »

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