Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ways we make connections along our electronic highways and romance's age-old need to crank up passion by placing frustrations in true love's path. Given that many of the + traditional obstacles like class, ethnic and religious differences are readily overcome these days by enlightened people, it's smart to recognize that about the only thing left to distance people is, yes, distance -- good old basic geography...
...however, that Sleepless in Seattle is too smart for its own good. For clever as it is conceptually, it violates the most basic rule of romantic- comedy construction. If boy doesn't meet girl, then the drama of boy losing girl and the final satisfaction of boy getting girl cannot happen. The complications in this movie are all logistical. They are never confrontational, as they so giddily were in the classic comedies of muddled love, the spirit of which co-writer and director Nora Ephron has said she wanted to recapture...
...wouldn't dare say this in their presence -- if you're smart, you won't invite them to the same planet -- but Steven Seagal and Spy magazine have a few things in common...
CINEMA The Firm starts smart and ends up infirm. Boy and girl take too long to meet in Sleepless in Seattle. MUSIC Streisand makes a dazzling return to Broadway -- on CD. THEATER Robert Goulet's touring Camelot is a waxworks. BOOKS Game Over tells how Nintendo wove its international spell. A seductive look at new theories of the universe...
...good. Cruise, like Robert Redford two decades ago, is a Hollywood hunk who has played it smart by playing smart guys: young men with cute brain waves who can make intelligence and idealism sexy. He and the pricey cast (Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley) make the machinery purr. The writers have corrected the book's dangling threat -- how to confront and cleverly resolve Mitch's brief disloyalty to Abby -- and its stodgy ending. The movie's moral is that however corrupt the Mob is, these lawyers are worse. Better for Mitch to cut a deal with a don than...