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...following this plot. Lieut. Tuck Pendelton (Dennis Quaid), a right- stuff pilot, volunteers for a Silicon Valley experiment in which he will be placed in a space capsule, miniaturized and inserted into a rabbit's body. But rival scientists invade the lab, and tiny Tuck is injected into the body of Jack Putter (Martin Short), a wimpy Safeway clerk. Before Tuck's oxygen supply runs out -- at 9 tomorrow morning -- Jack must find the courage and smarts to escape from a speeding truck, undergo a frightening face-lifting, steal a vital microchip, fight off a couple of midget dastards...
...stand-up comedian just after the heyday of "Hey, hey, L.B.J." protests, Randy Quaid used to do a takeoff routine on Lyndon Johnson. "He was always some kind of buffoon figure for me when I was growing up," he acknowledges. But after being cast as the Texas politician in LBJ, an NBC-TV movie to air next season, Quaid immersed himself in research that included taped interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, who is played by Patti LuPone. "I came to have this immense respect for the man," fellow Texan Quaid, 35, says now. "I could identify very strongly with...
Eddie (Sam Shephard) loves May (Kim Basinger), and May, despite her habit of kicking Eddie in the crotch, loves him in return. But it seems Eddie's been horsing around with a pistol-packing millionaire countess, while May's been seeing a dough-faced lawn maintenance man (Randy Quaid). The whole seedy business is overseen by an alcoholic desert rat (Harry Dean Stanton) who may or may not be May and Eddie's father, who may or may not have driven his wife to suicide, and who may or may not be guilty of bigamy. Ahem...
Shepard is a terrific Eddie, all slurred words and crooked teeth. He has a cocky, lanky body language, like a scarecrow loosed on a three-day drunk. Basinger is better, fiesty and dignified and lovely to watch. The scene in which she washes herself is unspeakably beautiful. Quaid is fine as the boyfriend, with a charm as harmless and crooked as his bowtie. And Harry Dean Stanton gives another superlative performance. He ranks with Robert Duvall as our finest character actor...
They are not one of those old brothers acts like the Everly, the Smothers or the Righteous, but Randy and Dennis Quaid occasionally find their separate acting careers intersecting. And the assignment is to play brothers. It happened first when they starred as scruffy outlaw brothers in the 1980 film The Long Riders. This week they will be paired again as they take over the leads in the New York City production of True West, Playwright Sam Shepard's role-switching psycho-comedy. Randy, 33, portrays a degenerate con artist who scuttles out of the desert to antagonize...