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...says. "Here's Pete Rose at 75 still playing first base, and panning over to the commissioner's box, on his 588th monthly extension, there's Bowie Kuhn .. ." He laughed, something he has been doing increasingly. "I guess as the wine runs down, it does get sweeter," he said. -By Tom Callahan
Testified Barnes: "I have no way to reach to get to 'em, and I want to get back at 'em. That's my primary reason." If revenge is indeed his reward, then his long life behind bars may be a bit sweeter: he has made it certain that his blood brothers will share his prison life...
Certainly the plot, a collage of stylized romantic twists, does not cry out for a sober presentation. This time around the star-crossed hopefuls are the ebullient Crocker and sweeter-than-sugar Hope Harcourt. True, Hope has another fiance but the undulating Reno (Heidi Dallin) makes an effort to rearrange the romantic supply and demand. All of this on a luxury ocean liner...
...other hand, it is not much fun. Though Elizabeth Edmonds could not be sweeter in the leading role, and everyone around her is genial enough, the movie does not quite deserve its promotional association with such predecessors as Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. For it lacks the wayward exuberance and quirkiness of those small delights. No inexplicable motorcyclist or man in a penguin suit is permitted to wander through Director Duffell's tidy frames. Nor are any brief, enlivening emotional squalls that might stir up those placid waters. The result is rather like a nice...
...historic grudges like Army-Navy or Notre Dame-Southern California, non-conference show-downs built on a tradition of excellent football. Any rivalry can turn a season around; a team with a losing record likes nothing better than to trip up frontrunner and it is that much sweeter if it's their rival...