Word: quaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero, here renamed Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid, charming even unto death), is determined not to go gentle into that good night. He will devote his final hours to finding out who slipped him slow-acting but irreversible poison. But Cornell is no longer an accountant. He is a blocked novelist, cynically teaching college lit. The new twist is that Cornell's death, not to mention several others, is motivated not by the usual lusts (money, sex, power) but by dark literary passions. How far we have come from 1949, when it was a boring old iridium shipment that set everyone...
...reliables tiptoes into town with a new movie designed not to stir a sensation but to fill booking dates. Pryor's film, Moving, is a comedy about a mass-transit engineer who loses his job, relocates to the Idaho ruburbs and declares war on his "neighbor from hell" (Randy Quaid). Among the cast are < Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey, SCTV's Dave Thomas and the World Wrestling Federation's King Kong Bundy. Behind the camera is Alan Metter, who directed Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 hit Back to School. Since Moving was unavailable for screening last week, we can only...
Following the showing of "Suspect." which stars Dennis Quaid and Cher, Yates will discuss the making of his 18th film and answer questions. The picture is scheduled for release by Tri-Star pictures at the end of this month...
...their subject, Dennis Quaid...
Indeed, Innerspace plays as if it were the hippest Martin-and-Lewis comedy. Tuck is the boozer-crooner-loverboy; Jack is the engaging, zany nerd. Both actors have nifty fun updating these roles. Quaid, flashing the satanic grin patented by Jack Nicholson, ensures that Tuck makes a convincing connection with a friend he cannot embrace until the end of the movie. And Short, late of SCTV and Saturday Night Live, is one deft darling. Jack begins as a wild paranoiac but soon straightens up and loosens up, especially in a maniacal boogie he performs to Sam Cooke's Twistin...