Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle-class tragedy played as sprightly farce. B.B.'s virgin Caddy, with one-sixteenth of a mile on it, collides with Tilley's car. B.B. steals Tilley's restless wife (Barbara Hershey). Tilley defenestrates his wife's clothes and assaults the intruding B.B. with eggs and tomatoes. Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions...
Some producers are trying to lure women by making hard-core imitations of soap operas like The Young and the Restless or Harlequin romances. Says Bill Margold of West Hollywood, a longtime performer in and director of porno films: "The industry is trying to capture the soap opera, the romance novel. We're trying to capture admiration for the female." Says Money: "On network soap operas you get above-the-beltline love and guess the rest. On videos you get below the beltline but a romantic story line as well...
...question is whether, with another few months and another $40 million, the contras will be able to carry out the kind of military moves necessary to keep the support of a restless U.S. Even with consistent funding, predicts General John Galvin, head of the U.S. Southern Command, it will take at least several years for the contras to overthrow the Sandinistas...
Even a boisterous crowd of Pudding lovers willing to shell out $50 a seat was unable to generate much enthusiasm for this three-hour ordeal. The audience began getting restless from the start and on one occasion during the second act a particularly loathsome joke yielded a lone cackle from the back...
Like several other scenes in Bye Bye Verdi, the Sid Down-Stan Byeme exchange seems utterly pointless, serving only to lengthen the production and irritate the increasingly restless audience...