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...Kaufman brings off some colorfully overheated scenes: a vicious free-for-all on a football field, an erotic strip-poker game at a make-out party, a racial confrontation in a classroom. Sometimes the ten sion is flecked with humor. When the chief Wanderer (Ken Wahl) and his nebbishy sidekick (John Friedrich) get particularly horny, they go to hilariously elaborate lengths to press the flesh of neighborhood women. The laughs are crude, but in character...
...superb acting by Susan Sarandon and Eric Robert does more than just enhance the well-directed lead roles the two of them play--it makes the movie work. Last seen in pretty Baby with sidekick Shields, Sarandon is even better here; she has more to work with. She can be funny, serious, wealthy and wide-eyed, as well as downtrodden, while Shields, though visually pleasing...
...locals, who was Johnny Most's sidekick during his formative years...
...Crimson brigade of distance swimmers is a potentially devastating collection of talent. First there's Hackett and his sidekick Mike Coglin. One time British national team member Coglin, last year's Eastern champ in the 400-yd. individual medley, commenced his second season for Harvard by winning two of his other specialties, the 500-yd. and 1000-yd. freestyles, in impressive fashion last Saturday. Add to this duo three-time high school All-American freshman Tim Maximoff, fellow Californian Phil Atkinson, and local hero Jack Gauthier (see freshman profiles), and you can understand why opponents will be seeing red when...
...steps, The Duchess of Duke Street hits its stride. The hotel provides a center for succeeding episodes, and a staff of regular characters assembles. There is Mary (Victoria Plucknett), Louisa's adoring assistant, and Major Smith-Barton (Richard Vernon), a guest at the hotel who becomes his landlady's sidekick and confidant. Comic relief appears with Merriman (John Welsh), a teetering old headwaiter, and Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally answers. Christopher Cazenove lends...