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...Park Avenue matron and a working-girl neighbor and her British boyfriend. They are a motley crew whose collective eccentricity is matched only by the writers own. All of these episodes--save one in which the actress, temporarily in London, scopes out the infamous bookstore for her pal back in the States--are irrelevant to the story's principal theme, bibliophilia, and remain half-baked...
...with eggs and tomatoes. Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions in the sprung rhythms of everyday speech. Levinson has found the perfect cast for this comic elegy; each actor's face is a subtle caricature of ordinary futility. In fact, most of the movie is pretty funny, if you can convince yourself that...
...captive barely resembled the mountain man who had become something of a legend. His shaggy beard had been replaced by a trim mustache, and agents speculated that he had undergone facial surgery. Authorities found him by shadowing Danny Martinez, a cowhand pal. "We set up a net around Mr. Martinez, and Dallas walked into it," said an FBI agent. In Idaho, Dallas faces an additional five years for prison escape, tacked onto his 30-year sentence for manslaughter...
...Senator, this is your old pal, Rutger Fury. I want to talk to you about your recent withdrawal from the presidential race...
Sure, you can send mail to Stanford. But remember, Stanford is in a different time zone, so you have to amplify stuff for your pen-pal by writing clarifications like "Last night I went to dinner at a keen restaurant (that's late afternoon, your time), blah blah blah" and avoid all references to earthquakes...