Word: quaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enemy of stardom too. For if celebrity is courting Barkin, it is partly due to the sizzling sex scenes that ornament her recent movies. As a prim D.A. in The Big Easy, she gets lessons in precision ecstasy from handy Dennis Quaid. A Barkin heroine will tussle with any man on even terms, perhaps to the death. In Mary Lambert's gorgeous, complex ghost story Siesta, Barkin is already dead, but that cannot stop her from a convulsive rendezvous with the aerialist of her dreams. Or from looking sensational in a stop-light red dress and a body sculpted...
...Charles Rocket, Mary Gross). One year it brought in seasoned ringers like Billy Crystal and Martin Short (no fair -- they were ready for prime time); then Michaels returned with an all new cast that ranged from teen flashes-in-the-pan like Anthony Michael Hall to Hollywood veteran Randy Quaid. But the ensemble - feeling had disappeared, and the writing had grown desperate and juvenile: in one witless sketch, Bobby and Jack Kennedy plot to murder Marilyn Monroe. There was talk of cancellation...
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This biopic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of a sexual threat for Middle America. Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This bio-pic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of cottoning to the sexual and class danger he held for Middle America. But Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...
...trouble is that rude realism keeps raising its voice, breaking in on the fun. The sound track naturally resounds with the orgasmic hammering of the Lewis beat, wails with the simple, not to say crude, sexual metaphors of his lyrics. Dennis Quaid very successfully re-creates his dervish-like stage presence (he made Elvis' pelvis look as if it were stuck in the mud) in a portrayal that goes over the top in nicely calculated measure. And Winona Ryder contributes a hypnotically enigmatic performance -- articulate innocence and inarticulate knowingness all mixed up -- as the singer's nymphet bride. All these...