Word: nick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Glenn Close) and Nick (Mandy Patinkin) are a San Francisco couple whose state of yuppie nirvana is suddenly and supposedly humorously disrupted when Jan's body is taken over by the ghost of a flapper starlet named Maxie Malone...
...obnoxious and talks like an odd synthesis of Mae West and Betty Boop, we know Maxie is in the driver's seat. There are some funnyish scenes when Maxie takes over at inopportune moments, like when Jan is at a society fundraiser, or when she is in bed with Nick, but her character is simply not interesting enough to keep these scenes alive...
Even though there is comic potential in the relationship between Maxie and Nick, their dialogue is so badly written that the humor level never exceeds that of an ambitious Crest commercial. Nick's reaction to his wife's possession is interesting at first, but once he stops being Maxie's victim and becomes her mentor, delivering lines like "Maxie, you know that people get old when they don't die young," it all goes down the toilet...
...Nick's friendly, eccentric old landlady, the late Ruth Gordon plays the same role she has played since Rosemary's Baby, although she does not chase Close around with mandrakes and bat sperm in this picture...
...biography, the transcript of taped interviews with people playing characters who knew Boone, is the brainchild of Mather House juniors Brooks Hansen and Nick Davis. They say they were strongly influenced by the recent biographies of Norman Mailer and Edie Sedgewick, both of which were also based on interviews...