Word: stardom
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...know a movie is in trouble when always rumpled Nick Nolte looks to be in better shape than once sleek Eddie Murphy. A pity: the great black hope of the '80s seems to have phoned in his performance from a stretch limo on its way to ex-stardom...
...Andrew Dice Clay's mouth. A few years ago, Clay was playing small clubs and working as a supporting actor. Now he is poised between stand-up and stardom. He is top-lining in two summer movies, one a comedy concert film, the other a detective spoof called The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. With his suave prole looks and his studded, studied cock-of-the-Brooklyn-walk demeanor, Clay wears the aura of danger that Hollywood wants in a movie star. So maybe he'll be one. That still leaves doubts about his popular appeal...
...severed fingertips. The actors too come at their roles energetically, not condescendingly. Baldwin plays Junior with a goofy grin and the scheming intensity of a small mind spinning its wheels and getting nowhere. Ward finds Hoke's integrity down at his heels. And Leigh, a gifted chameleon who deserves stardom, can wring pathos just by reading a recipe for vinegar pie or walking up the path to a house she will never own. Handsomely made, wonderfully acted, Miami Blues is the kind of picture Hollywood ought to be making more of. If only...
...OUTSIDERS (SUNDAYS, 7 p.m. EDT, FOX). TV has discovered a new genre: working-class romanticism. First came Elvis, with its nostalgic retelling of the King's early rise from blue-collar boredom to Top 40 stardom. Now Francis Coppola has turned his 1983 movie about Oklahoma teenagers (based on the S.E. $ Hinton novel) into a lyrical, lovingly crafted TV series. Class conflict is the theme: the three Curtis brothers, scraping along together after the death of their parents, are part of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks crowd known as the Greasers. Their snooty, letter-sweatered antagonists are called...
...THRU PSYCHIC MIND CONTROL OR YOUR MONEY BACK. The title may promise the impossible, but it captures the playful tone in this tale of Southern sisters who dream about Nashville stardom and of the men who derail them. At Act I Arena Theater in Framingham, Mass...