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...handsome cast performs these epiphanies in grand, graceful comic style; the actors know this is not so much real life as ideal life. And Robert, whose reputation previously rested on slight farces such as The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, presents the vignettes with an assured briskness the viewer barely has time to appreciate. They are like Marcel and his brother: eager and bright, soliciting our attention, trying to crowd each other out. But gently, no elbows. Again like Marcel, these films are at once playful and spectacularly well behaved...
Birkenstocks were introduced to the U.S. after Californian Margot Fraser discovered them during a trip to her native Germany in 1966. Undaunted by U.S. shoe-store owners who told her no woman would wear such homely shoes, she persisted by selling them mostly through health-food stores. Before long, they became an essential part of the hip uniform of the '70s. But unlike some other foot-friendly footwear of that era (remember Earth shoes?), they never really went away. Birkenstock kept its loyal following and diversified by bringing out men's and children's models...
...plot, which requires the pair to keep marrying and separating, that redeems the picture. The film is so quick and busy that most of the time one forgets they are essentially no-accounts, not entirely bright or likable. Indeed, Simon's admission that they are based on historical models -- shoe magnate Harry Karl and starlet Marie ("the Body") McDonald, whose misadventures in multiple marriage titillated tabloid readers four decades ago -- renders the jolliness of his writing, and Rees' direction, all the more astonishing. They were, perhaps, a very odd couple, but not necessarily a fun couple...
...Memphis a black county sheriff was convicted Friday of violating civil rights laws in the June 1989 choking death of Michael Gates, 28, a black drug suspect. Gates' body was covered with bruises in the shape of shoe prints...
...souffle in a cold draft. Their formula: combine more expensive main dishes with less costly garnishes, and visa versa. An appetizer of crab cakes, for example, is accompanied by marinated black beans. Caviar is not out of the question, but it comes from a local fish called choupique (pronounced shoe-pick) and is said to be as good as any other American kind and is a lot cheaper than the Russian variety...