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Julia alternates between the roles of the author and his character. As Quixote, he rides around on his donkey with his sidekick Sancho (Tony Martinez), attempting "to right the unrightable wrong...
...becomes the drama of a mediocrity, a sort of imposter, presuming to take over. Or so it always seems. The vice presidency almost by definition enforces an expectation of the second rate: the man is inherently a loser (he was not the President, after all) or at best a Sancho Panza. In the case of Andrew Johnson following Abraham Lincoln, the fear of mediocrity was fulfilled. When Franklin Roosevelt died, a god of the era gave place, it seemed, to democracy's least common denominator, a barking, weightless little haberdasher from Independence...
Worst of all is Quaid, who plays a Sancho Panza to Murray's Don Quixote. Quaid seems to have forgotten that successful slapstick requires a great deal more than simply acting clumsy, and the audience soon grows as weary of his character's stumbling, bumbling and foot-dragging as Grimm and Phyllis do. By the last third of the movie, he has been reduced to a wheezing, red-faced wreck, and one wishes that his accomplices would simply turn him in to the cops and get on with their escape...
...Sancho said that he had been out during the evening and that he did not know what had been happening in the dorm. But he said that he had heard that the accident might be alcoholrelated...
Goldstine's body was found lying in a pool of blood on the ground outside D-entry, said Miguel A. Sancho '92, who lives upstairs from Goldstine. Sancho said he and three friends were walking through the courtyard around midnight when they discovered the accident...