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...PHILOSOPHER with a viewfinder, Charles Cummings (Jon Cryer) snaps shots of everything from foreign freighters to flies on his school desk. "I once asked my mom where babies come from," he says, in a Risky Business-style internal monologue. "She told me one of the strangest stories I'd ever heard. It turned out to be true." With enough cheekiness to make him a funnier and more openly rebellious Joel Goodsen, No Small Affair could, indeed, be a funnier Risky Business: the tale of a camera, a boy, and his loss of innocence. Instead, the film becomes so clumsy that...
...Brodcrick on Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoris, Jon Cryer does his best comic work alone. "I once heard it said that if y ou stand in one place long enough, the world will pass you by. It's not true." "Have a girl, Chuck?" asks his "uncle" Ken, mom's live-in. "No thanks," he replies. "I'm full." Do all kids talk to their parents this way, mom asks, "I don't know. Most kids are too stoned to talk at all." And so on, Co-stars Peter Frenchettle, Jeffrey Tambor and Ann Wedgeworth, however able...
...brother Leonard (Frenchette) goes through enough girlfriends to make "finance" sound like a synonym for "Miss." Struggling to become something more than a straight (wo)man for Charles's barbs, his mother sticks to her live-in "Uncle" Ken. "I hope you're planning to marry her," Charles tells mom's shaving-cream-adorned amour, "you know it's the only decent thing to do." Uncle Jake calls it Charles's attitude problem, romanties call it cynicism, but it all adds up to the end of innocence...
Everything in the current Democratic hand-wringing fits in nicely with a powerhouse Gary W. Hart candidacy in 1988, and the Democratic Party must use the freedom of utter defeat to build upon the neoliberal agenda the Colorado Senator set forth this spring. Those of us brought up on Mom, Apple Pie and the New Deal must lower our turned-up noses and realize that neoliberalism, whatever we think of it, will be part and parcel of the Democratic geist for years to come...
Sally, a rehearsed volunteer from the class, is way ahead of Uncle Harry. "I think I hear Aunt Mary coming home," she says. When he tries to make her promise that what has happened is "just our little secret," she replies firmly, "No, I'm going to tell Mom and Aunt Mary." That shuts down Uncle Harry. When the leader asks the class if Sally wanted to sit close, they chorus, "No! Did he force her? "Yes!" Did she want to kiss Uncle Harry...