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With its semisnazzy repartee and would-be ebullience, I Love Trouble strains for the style of the grand old movies (the Thin Man capers, the Tracy-Hepburn comedies Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike, half a dozen Hitchcocks) from which it borrows plot, dialogue and ambiance. But style is a Hollywood commodity even rarer these days than a pretty woman. Films don't breeze; they wheeze. Directors aren't pastry chefs anymore; they are construction foremen. Watching I Love Trouble, you can see the erection of a new Julia Roberts statue. The monument is eye-catching but bland...
...seeks to achieve. Stripping words down to their bare essentials can lead to a vague, nondescriptive--and practically useless--form of language. Imagine the birth of the human race told in gender neutral terms: God caused the person to fall into a deep sleep and took one of its ribs and closed flesh around it. God built the rib taken from the person into a person...This will be called a person, for from a person was it taken. Clearly, neutering language has its limits...
...Thursday, Dec. 2. "Visions of Light" at 4 and 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4. "Blade Runner" at 5:45 and 9:50 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4, with a Saturday matinee at 1:45 p.m. "Adam's Rib" at 3:30 and 7:35 p.m. and "State of the Union" at 1, 5:15 and 9;30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5. "Night of the Hunter" at 4:15 and 7:55 p.m. and "Out of the Past" at 6 and 9:35 p.m. on Monday Dec. 6. "The Vampire Lovers...
...attack left Gilland with a fractured thumb (into which metal pins have been permanently inserted), a broken arm, a broken rib, a fractured jaw, a shattered wrist and multiple lacerations and abrasions, according to the woman and police reports...
...meal featured prime rib, tortellini and asparagus, some of Baird's favorite training-table food according to one anonymous dining hall employee (and die-hard Baird groupie...