Word: quaid
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...Vanna White got married, and so did Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid (those last two to each other). Jane Fonda and Ted Turner are engaged. Danny Thomas and Margot Fonteyn died. James Brown was paroled...
DAVIS RULES (ABC, Jan. 27, approximately 10 p.m. EST). The year's most coveted time period -- the one following the Super Bowl -- goes to this new sitcom starring Jonathan Winters as the wacky father of a grammar school principal (Randy Quaid...
...this year's dole list are the American Indian (Dances with Wolves), the mentally bereft (Awakenings), the Nisei interned during World War II (Come See the Paradise) -- noble victims all, and all seen through the dewy eyes of a white male star (Kevin Costner or Robin Williams or Dennis Quaid) who elevates their plight by suffering along with them...
...epistolary form, concentrated more on the dark laughter of the rehab clinic. The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. Suzanne has her poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then you're camp." In Postcards...
Worst of all is Quaid, who plays a Sancho Panza to Murray's Don Quixote. Quaid seems to have forgotten that successful slapstick requires a great deal more than simply acting clumsy, and the audience soon grows as weary of his character's stumbling, bumbling and foot-dragging as Grimm and Phyllis do. By the last third of the movie, he has been reduced to a wheezing, red-faced wreck, and one wishes that his accomplices would simply turn him in to the cops and get on with their escape...