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...does?and director Alan J. Pakula?s analogous strengths. Pakula develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, 'The Devil?s Own' suggests the skill may only be mislaid. Of course, it helps when you hire grownups to do the job." BOOKS . . . JOHN WAYNE'S AMERICA: In his new history, (Simon & Schuster; 380 pages; $26) Gary Wills imagines that the the fact that John Wayne still tops polls asking us to identify our favorite movie stars some 18 years after...
Sounds like an old-fashioned French farce, doesn't it?--all intricate coincidence, mislaid innocence and misplaced passion. But She's the One has something more on its mind than extending the privileges of upper-class sexual idiocy to people of--or newly emerged from--the contemporary American working class. For all the wildness of his plotting, Burns, expanding the territory he opened up in The Brothers McMullen, is at heart a realist of an interesting kind--cool, nonjudgmental, even genial. He is also a confident subversive, gnawing away at the notion, currently so popular in political circles, that average...
...replicate his car endlessly on a production line, promote it and warrant it and tweak it around to create a little novelty each new model year, Tucker might have ended up running on empty, one of those corporate windbags booming the virtues of an individualism he has long since mislaid...
...self-abasing behavior is a phase she will outgrow. In another subplot, the girl's parents consider divorce, but the audience cannot see the agony they profess to feel. The entire proceedings, staged by Mike Nichols, are life as viewed through Saran Wrap. Although Broadway Veteran Nichols has mislaid his gift for telling detail, he has evoked maximum slickness and verve...
...interim, however, Rudolph seems to have mislaid his sense of humor, and Trouble in Mind is a walk on the dour side. The locale is "RainCity" (which is not going to please the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, where the film was shot). A cashiered cop named Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld...