Word: moonstruck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sure You Copy the Good Stuff. A better title for Used People might be Used Goods; it's this year's Moonstruck knock-off. The chief difference is that, as written by Todd Graff and directed by Beeban Kidron, this lower- middle-class New York City family is glumly dysfunctional instead of chipperly so. The matriarch is newly widowed Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), and oy, has she got troubles. One of her daughters (Marcia Gay Harden) is developing multiple personalities based on celebrity models. The other (Kathy Bates) is fighting fat and single-mom bitterness. Grandma (Jessica Tandy) is, perhaps sensibly...
...Easton's "Sugar Walls" came out, and I liked it. Madonna and "Like a Virgin," then U2, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin... Satan's music, and I didn't care. I stopped yelling at movies where unmarried people would kiss; I even cheered when Loretta and Tony slept together in Moonstruck. What was happening...
BEGGARS IN THE HOUSE OF PLENTY. The family is as quarrelsome as in Moonstruck, but this time John Patrick Shanley views the combat unforgivingly. His own off-Broadway staging is stylized and energetic. The role based on him is convincingly played by Loren Dean, star of the current film Billy Bathgate...
KING EDWARD VIII by Philip Ziegler (Knopf; $24.95). The great crown-for-love scandal gets a decidedly unromantic treatment in this diplomatic but by no means flattering portrait of the moonstruck Duke of Windsor, the man who gave up his throne for a career as the husband of American-born Wallis Simpson...
Cyrano de Bergerac Moonlit idealism and moonstruck love, dashing swordplay and flashing wordplay, bold intelligence and bustling spectacle . . . And the winner is -- by more than a nose -- Gerard Depardieu...