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Even as a love story, the film fails. Part of the problem is the stars, who are too bland, and at times charmless, to inspire much audience empathy. A sadder difficulty is the script's uncertainty of tone. Alex's and Sheila's batty home lives are presented in such outrageous broad strokes that the credibility of the couple's supposedly sincere romance is under mined. There are a few funny peripheral moments, especially those that focus on the mores of video dating, but there are also stale gags about wayward cars and coitus interruptus...
...back in the outside world feeling sane but "sadder" and "quieter," Estroff has vowed to keep studying the plight of deinstitutionalized mental patients, as well as that of the struggling psychiatric workers. But only under one condition. Says she: "I will not do this type of field work alone again...
...England Tea Men took it on the chin (or is it shin?) twice this week: first striker Mike Flanagan lost the league scoring title to New Yorker Giorgio Chinaglia, and then the Fort Lauderdale Strikers struck the team from the playoffs. We're not sure which is sadder, but it still means an end to pro soccer around these parts for quite a few months...
When it was over the cagers stepped out on the slushy sidewalks of Broadway and headed for LaGuardia airport--a sadder but wiser team...
...Even sadder, perhaps, than the behavior of Third World elites is the extent to which multinational corporations use advertising to change the consumption habits of the Third World's poor. All over the world, people spend hard-earned money on non-nutritious imported foods, substituting them for traditional foodstuffs. Nestle's persuades people to buy its milk instead of relying on mothers' milk. Ritz sells crackers, not bread. Imported goods become status symbols and diets change, rarely for the better. In Zambia, Lappe and Collins report, doctors frequently write "Coca-Cola baby" on the progress reports of infants hospitalized...