Word: sheila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Works of Beethoven, Bach and Debussy, Sheila Reinhold, violinist, and Max Sung pianist, Holmes Living Room...
...this cockfight between the stars lends the movie its feisty appeal, its wholehearted trafficking in musical cliches imparts an air of ingratiating delirium. There are the usual lavish numbers-including a reproduction of a Billy Rose Aquacade -staged with a satiric glint by Director Herbert Ross (The Last of Sheila). But the best tune in the show is a ballad (If I Love Again), delivered quietly by Streisand as she stands with a song sheet over a piano. The writers have also supplied a fair number of punchy Broadway wisecracks. Says Caan, proposing to Streisand as he flashes a hulking...
...also hope that Dr. Greif understands that I have no investment in making him feel bad: I simply don't like him wasting my time and do feel that he has a lot to unlearn. Sheila Hoffman...
...Sheila Levine is based on a novel (written by Co-Scenarist Gail Parent) that sold fittingly few hard-cover copies. With the benefit of massive promotion, the paperback hit big, so perhaps the film makers thought they had a good thing. To make it better, they cast Jeannie Berlin (the scorned wife in The Heartbreak Kid") as the eponymous heroine. Sheila is fresh out of college, a Jewish princess from Harrisburg, Pa., who gets her heart broken in the big city. She falls hard for a doctor (mother will be pleased) who treats her casually (mother will be irked...
Cinch Romance. Cow-eyed, clumsy, relentlessly but unknowingly masochistic, Mrs. Levine's little girl yearns for the doctor despite his manifest lack of interest. Well, he is not quite remote. He often looks affectionately at Sheila while waiting around for the roommate to get dressed. This gets Sheila crazy. Finally, the doctor bares his sensitive soul: it seems that a girl looked at him and said "Yuck" when he tried to claim a spin-the-bottle reward at the age of 10. After that confession, the romance is a cinch. He kisses off the roommate, and approaches Sheila humbly...