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...ICEMAN COMETH. As O'Neill's bedeviled drunk turned reformer, film star Brian Dennehy (FX) gives a charming and chilling performance that rivals Jason Robards' definitive portrayal. But the surprises in the production at Chicago's Goodman Theater are the rest of the splendid cast and the painterly, expressionistic staging by Robert Falls...
...leading performers in this production are splendid. As Anne, Polites shows us a powerful mixture of initial naivete and acquired cynicism. She's a disenchanted Dorothy, gasping, "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness," in her initial nervousness towards the Japanese and then bitterly denouncing them when she discovers their persistent hostility. Banyas gives Ono's character a tenderness and resonance of feeling rarely seen on the Harvard stage. She serves as stepmother for Anne, never certain whether the affection she bestows on this young American will be reciprocated or scorned...
...National League, talent carries a curse of its own. The New York Mets, predicted first every season, but whose favorite finishing spot is second, enjoyed a splendid June that propelled them near the top of the N.L. East. For the other five months, though, the Mets have played just .500 ball, allowing the Pittsburgh Pirates -- a team too young to bathe in flop sweat -- nearly unimpeded access to first place. In the N.L. West, the Cincinnati Reds, champions-designate since their springtime sprint from the gate, curled up in a summerlong slumber. Only the mediocrity of their California pursuers...
...like Batman, this comic-book movie is anything but comic; every plangent chord of Danny Elfman's splendid pop-Wagnerian score underlines the scientist's twisted nobility. Raimi isn't effective with his actors, and the dialogue lacks smart menace, but his canny visual sense carries many a scene. And he knows how to give resonance to a tinny plot: by portraying a character so powerful and warped that he is urban America's perfect patron saint...
DICK TRACY. Forget the marketing campaign, which has blitzed everyone this side of Burkina Faso. Forget Warren Beatty's reputation as an indefatigable Don Juan. Just plunk down your money and enjoy a suave, splendid movie romance...