Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blues vie with big bands and hot jazz. There are marching bands and washboard scratchers, as well as beer hall oom-pah-pah and big-name oomph. Concert performers will run the scale from Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt to Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern. Naturally, Al Hirt and Pete Fountain will also drop by to blow a few notes on behalf of the local talent...
While the guerrillas showed their disdain, American visitors expressed non-partisan delight over the election process. U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Thomas Pickering took 41 official U.S. observers, including Senators Pete Wilson of California and John Chafee of Rhode Island and a group of Congressmen, around to watch the balloting. Said Chafee: "Anybody who looks at this and fails to be impressed is just immune to sensitivity." Agreed Angier Biddle Duke, a Democrat who had served as Ambassador to El Salvador in 1952-53: "The U.S. spent chicken feed here, and in return for that investment we have seen...
...peppers them with endless questions, shifts moods in a matter of seconds and demands that everyone keeps up with her. She admits, "My biggest goal right now is to avoid being judgmental. But I am intolerant of people who don't move at my pace." Says Journalist Pete Hamill, with whom she lived for almost seven years: "I don't think of Shirley as a person who relaxes." Another former lover, Soviet Director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (Siberiade) observes, "Shirley is a missile with self-correction of trajectory and a powerful engine...
Though the film does arouse occasional suspense, little is left to the viewer's imagination. Betty (Winger) and Mike (Mark Keyloun), two ex-lovers, attempt to rekindle a romance that blossomed while Mike was Betty's tennis instructor. Meanwhile, Mike and his friend Pete (Darreli Larson) while away the hours getting stoned, causing trouble, and ultimately in Mike's case, losing his life. An outraged bewildered Betty decides to find out who was responsible, and as she does, slowly puts together the tragic pieces of Mike's life...
...numerous confessionals in the film, the only one which nears full development is Pete's. In one of the movie's few captivating scenes, in which a crazed and doped out Pete threatens to kill Betty, Bridges gives us a fleeting glimpse into the terror and paranoia that plague Phillip throughout the film. However, because we know so little about him aside from his penchant for snorting cocaine, the scene seems somehow out of place...