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...seems to be Eddie (Steve Guttenberg); a smiling, easy-going Baltimore Colts fan. He has decided to tie the knot, but, in a hilarious bit of Americana (which rings amazingly true), agrees to marry the woman in question only if she can pass a mammoth 100-question football trivia quiz, with questions like what the team colors were of teams before the formation of the National Football League. He says the test is to insure that they'll have something to talk about when they're married, but it appears more like a matter of entering a frightening stage...
...whole point of growing up, and by the end of the movie you get the firm impression that there's a lot less getting by the guys. In the final scene, when Eddie and his girlfriend finally do get married, owing to her prodigious performance on the football trivia quiz, the bridal bouquet falls on the table where the guys are sitting. The ending is just the right bit upbeat. These guys are going to grow up; they'll somehow make it out of this world all right. Just look at what happened to Barry Levinson...
...question barely survives the interruptions from the author's richly mordant characters: Dutch's lover, Judge Martha Sweeney, who kept her virginity until she was 31 and wears a .38 under her judicial robes; Father Hugh Campion, a "celebrity priest" who won $100,000 on a quiz show and went on to star in Father Hugh's Kitchen, "the highest-rated cooking program on the air"; Private Detective Marty Cagney ("Discreetly determining what was done-where & with whom"), who compiles the adulterous dirt on Dutch's exwife; Cagney's daughter Mary who dumps a rich...
That wives may amend their lives properly. Molloy offers a quiz for executive wives, including such vital points as: "6 I shop for my clothing at the same stores as the wives of my husband's co-workers,"..."11 I immediately spot someone with poor table manners,"..."12 Although most of the homes in my area are in the same price category. I can immediately tell when I walk in the door whether the people who live there are professionals and executives." Molloy tells women who answered all 16 questions in the affirmative to congratulate themselves, and all who answered...
...invective. They failed, for example, even to find out the identities of those card-carrying Communists. Bayley also highlights distortedly melodramatic performances of the media, points out that many headlines and broadcasted leads exaggerated McCarthy's charges; Senate to Probe Department Reds" or "Reds in High Places Face Senate Quiz," many headlines read, assuming guilt for the accused Communist sympathizer...