Word: patten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leibman and Jessica Walter are funny as a crass accountant and his smug wife. Ken Howard and Lisa Banes have striking moments as a would-be state senator and his disenchanted spouse. But the other couples -- Andre Gregory and Joyce Van Patten as a spaced-out therapist and his oddball wife, and Mark Nelson and Christine Baranski as neurotic lawyers -- derive from TV rather than life. Gene Saks, who won two Tony Awards directing the trilogy, finds few nuances here. W.A.H...
...effect, to compensate their victims by the punch. Sample penalties: $84 for a simple graze, $168 for a black eye, $1,428 for a broken nose, $2,940 for a fractured jaw and as much as $13,440 for a serious facial scar. Said Home Office Minister John Patten: "I am anxious that the victims get a better deal." As for the bad guys, sock...
...week investigation explores theblunders of magazines, audio, movies, newspapers,television and books, with "transcripts" fromhearings and clips of "evidence" such as "TeenBeat Interview: George Shultz" and "The Dick VanShow," described by Forbes as "Dick Van Patten andDick Van Dyke...they drive around in the Dickvan...
...hunky, athletic law student. Make that was. For Allan is hit by a truck and wakes up a quadriplegic. He is told to look on the bright side: "You'll get all the best parking spaces." But for Allan, this is a life near death. His mother (Joyce Van Patten) cloys and crushes. His girlfriend runs off with the surgeon who may have botched his operation. His nurse, a sulky sadist named Maryanne (Christine Forrest), cares more for her parakeet than for her patient. And Allan's best friend (John Pankow) is a mad scientist of the cybernetic age, Cuisinarting...
...British spy--Guy Burgess, retired to Moscow--as a displaced person, isolated from his best friends and instincts. Chris Boyce (Timothy Hutton) feels isolated too, trapped in America; but here Schlesinger dares not flirt with political or visual subtlety. Everyone is an oaf but our lad. Mom (Joyce Van Patten) is dithery, and Dad (Pat Hingle) scares the falcon, and Chris' girlfriend (Lori Singer) is one big vacant California erogenous zone. His treason is pinned on mid-America, not so much for the evil of its ways as for the banality of its style. Affluence is flatulence; good intentions...