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...original James Bond, but Sean Connery had his hands full playing Malone, the broguish cop in The Untouchables, which finished shooting last week in Chicago. "It's pretty cumbersome," says Connery of the tommy gun, one of the weapons he carries when he teams up with Crime Buster Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner (Silverado). But the tommy gun is one of the few things the Brian De Palma movie has in common with the vintage TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and featured a jailed Al Capone. In the film, for example, Capone, played by Robert...
Deep in the bowels of University Hall, L. Fred Jewett--'L' for "Law 'n' Order"--was plotting the crackdown that would once and for all make Harvard Yard a safe place for elderly grandmothers and university presidents. Flanked by his two highly paid consultants--Elliot Ness and Wyatt Earp--Marshall Jewett was going over the various proposals to bring the University's nogoodnicks to their knees. Bok loomed over Jewett's shoulder, showing inordinate interest in the plans of his two-fisted, iron-bellied lieutenant...
...dealt with the doubts and worries that some Harvard students feel, yet in writing with that goal in mind, he neglected to show that for every Harvard student of Asian descent who has such preoccupations, there is another Asian American here at Harvard who does not ponder his "Asian-ness versus American-ness...
...maybe not. This is an Ealing comedy for the '80s, omitting the cuddli- ness, the sense of community and the conscious charm of those old movies. But not their straight-faced delight in human eccentricity, their Englishness, if you will...
...musty script warrants praise. Too bad he wasn't confident enough of his audience to let his rewrite run without all the oblations to trendiness. There should be a place at the ART for mainstream theatre that doesn't seek to break the sound barrier for its utter chic-ness. That is, if the professor doesn't mind putting aside his textbook on cornering the Latest Thing market...