Word: mikey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit they seem first cousins to the pioneers-except that the next horizon does not promise rich bottom land or gold. Still, there are rewards along the way. Some business couples, like the Crowthers from San Diego, live year round in their bus, a Newell Jewel; Dick, 38, and Mikey, 34, make a good living selling French cookware at the two dozen motor-coach rallies they attend each year. For a few, like TV Actor Darold Westbrook, 46, and his wife, Darlene, 45, a converted 1950 vintage Greyhound is not only a convenience for off-beat locations, it has also...
...this year, Mikey," a retired amateur golfer yelled to Torrez, "You'll win it all for us." The man understood everything...
...calls up Mikey, asks him to bring cigarettes, then won't let him in the door. Mikey talks his way inside, gets milk and cream for Nicky's perforated ulcer, says he'll help him out of town. Nicky is wary, but Mikey remains steadfast. It is the best way to keep track of Nicky and make sure that he finally meets up with the fat guy who carries a pistol in a brown paper...
Quirky Insight. Mikey and Nicky is the work of three gifted people-the two leading actors and the writerdirector, who has been responsible for two of the funniest and most startling comedies of the decade, A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid. But here Falk and Cassavetes seem at sea, and May's talent gets lost in all the surrounding craziness, much of which has been well documented. Mikey and Nicky was begun in 1973, but is just now being released after numerous lawsuits. Paramount sued May for breach of contract, trying to repossess a film they already owned...
...notion must have been for Mikey and Nicky to be two aspects of the same victim, and to make them both prime candidates for a killing. If one is treacherous, the other is brutal. The assassination at the end seems like unfair retribution because only one of them is on the receiving end. Mikey and Nicky should have been a movie about friend ship and betrayal and a kind of cosmic, comic stalemate. Its own helpless indulgence is not just the movie's undoing. It becomes, instead, its subject. Jay Cocks