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More than 1,200 local seniors who came by bus from rest homes across Cambridge were treated to more than just lunch yesterday in Harvard Yard. They also saw a dancing University president, their mayor in a sailor's cap and even a life-sized mermaid...
...hill game gives Hackman, Washington and their cohort the chance to run around the submarine with guns and scowls. The milling is underscored with a heavy bass line that will leave moviegoers' bottoms tingling; and it is shot with lots of close-ups of manly jawlines, as if every sailor were posing to be sculpted like the U.S. Presidents onto Mount Rushmore. When in doubt, director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) lets loose a spray of water, sparks and sweat-the signature flourish of this Helmut Newton of movie machismo...
...such American sailor, Captain Samuel Barrett Edes, started a "mermaid" on a fantastic voyage that would take it from Japan to London to the hands of P.T. Barnum to, some would argue, Harvard's own Peabody Museum...
BALTIMORE--A federal judge yesterday ordered the Navy not to kick out a gay sailor who is fighting the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy...
...apparent fragmentation, Chelsom's directing soaks the film in an amibiance of insanity and tragicomedy, with the assistance of assorted morgues, haunted houses, circus tents and chorus girls. His unconventional and unsettling angles clutch the viewer in a graphic documentary style. A soundtrack of Bayou blues and French sailor songs as forgotten as the stage acts they accompany complements the screen action, and assures "Funny Bones" a place in the cult film firmament...