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...most of the specifics but admits to being a rogue. "If I knew I was going to live so long, I would have taken better care of myself," he says. "Had I known I was going to end up in the public eye, I might have rounded off some rough edges...
...Beckett play may aspire to silence, yet its characters can't shut up. The women, reminiscent of Beckett's Dublin youth, chatter on about postnuclear sunlight (Happy Days) or adulterous affairs (Play)--what's Gaelic for yenta? The men ponder the efficacy of torture (Rough for Theatre II, What Where), the memory of a mother's last days (Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls). Their dialogue often sounds like bumper stickers for the clinically depressed: "Can there be misery loftier than mine?" asks Hamm in Endgame. But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic. As Beckett knew, all hope is comic...
...unattainable ideal, the perfectly struck golf ball, which requires oneness with the universe. That a foolhardy opportunity to achieve that state arises on the last hole of the Open is the kind of bad dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life...
...opportunity to achieve that state arises on the last hole of the U.S. Open, when Roy has a chance to beat his slick and arrogant, lifelong rival (Don Johnson), is the kind of bad, dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life. "As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness," says TIME's Richard Schickel As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond doubt that she is modern Hollywood...
...opportunity to achieve that state arises on the last hole of the U.S. Open, when Roy has a chance to beat his slick and arrogant, lifelong rival (Don Johnson), is the kind of bad, dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life. "As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness," says TIME's Richard Schickel As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond doubt that she is modern Hollywood...