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...much of A Dangerous Woman and Shadowlands, Winger plays against her comely strengths. She almost shields her eyes -- she knows they can too easily seduce the camera -- and she makes the audience struggle to like her characters. Her Joy Gresham, dressed dowdily and flaunting a broad Noo Yawk accent, seems at first punished into caricature. Martha in A Dangerous Woman trudges through town as an ostentatious object of pity. The actress won't do all the work; viewers must meet her halfway. With a Winger woman, it's always worth the effort. Joy grows subtly to human size...
...material works best uncinematized -- a radio play with its own gentle celluloid night-light. But Screenwriter Hugh Whitemore and Director David Jones have thrown in trips to Central Park, vignettes of the Doels doing house chores. And Anne Bancroft has provided Helene, a native of Pennsylvania, with a Noo Yawk accent that rasps on the ear. She hurls apostrophes to the walls and abuse at her typewriter. One sighs: Relax, Anne, you got the job. As Frank, though, Anthony Hopkins gets the job done. With shrewd understatement, he fills out the portrait of a man who demands much of himself...
RHINESTONE She (Dolly Parton) is a country singer itching to escape from her predatory manager. He (Sylvester Stallone) is a Noo Yawk cab driver with both feet recklessly pressed on the accelerator pedal of life. East is East and South is South and never the twang shall meet, right? Not if you are familiar with Hollywood's perennial passion for cross-pollinating ethnic strains. Before you can say "Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys," the country kitten has made a bet with her manager that in two weeks she can turn this city rat into a down-home singing...
...shorter Preakness (1 3/16 miles) but are now murmuring that he will fade in a race as long as the Belmont (1½ miles). Not Johnny Campo. He has no doubt that Pleasant Colony will become history's twelfth Triple Crown winner. The rapid-fire, near-shout Noo Yawk accent softens only when he speaks of his colt: "He really is a good horse, this horse. Ahh, such a good horse...
Mcllvanney captures the speech of his Glaswegians with similarly high fidelity. At first glance, the dialect seems designed to try the reader's patience: "If there's no somethin' wrang wi' her the noo, there'll be somethin' wrang wi' her when Ah get ma haunds oan 'er." Gradually, though, the "hoot, mon" appearance of words on the page disappears, replaced by the odd, lilting music of street, sitting room...