Word: phil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero has too many stereotypical conflicts with his overly villainous parents and employers; there are too many scenes that try to convey his sensitivity by showing him brooding on the beach at Brighton. The film's final section, a long chain of cathartic crises, is contrived. Still, Phil Daniels, as Jimmy, is both appealingly quirky and a good double for Who Guitarist Pete Townshend. Daniels also has two funny and touching sex scenes. When Jimmy masturbates solemnly at home and later makes inexperienced love to a prized "bird" (Leslie Ash), the film persuasively demonstrates that even the revolutions...
Canadian champion Phil Mohtadi started things off by dismantling Massachusetts singles and doubles champion Tom Poor in the tourney's opening match. Mohtadhi combined soft, floating serves with low, blistering backhand rail shots to eliminate Poor in three straight games...
While Scalise may love beating Brown, Brown coach Phil Pincince had mixed feelings about playing Harvard: "We want a crack at Harvard, but we wouldn't mind it if Princeton or Dartmouth...
Even before the opening credits, Jessica (Bergen) has kicked hubby Phil Potter out of their New York apartment and begun to sing. She sings like a gelded Al Jolson. Potter, a writer, ("my stuff is in those airplane magazines right behind the barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable, if wimpy, when he sits in the shadows of his bachelor pad and listens to "The Way We Were." At his brother's urging, he joins a divorced-men's therapy group where one ex-husband plans to marry the same woman for the fourth time and another dreams...
...such fealty to commerce were apparent from the first game. It was postponed by chilly rain, and a crew of teen-agers was pressed into mopping up Baltimore's Memorial Stadium with towels. Despite that effort, the Orioles and the Pirates committed three errors each. Pirate Second Baseman Phil Garner let in the winning runs in the first inning when he tossed a simple double-play throw clear into left field...