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Lemmon's character goes from being the same and sober one of the pair--Curtis is the flamboyant, womanizing risk-taker--to a state of madcap abandon. There's a gleam in his eyes as he shakes a pair of maracas, or holds a rose between his teeth during a tango with Brown, that is nothing short of priceless. The tango scene is one of the greatest in comedy film history, and it works because of Lemmon...
...While You Were Sleeping" is a fairy tale starring Sandra Bullock as the princess, Peter Gallager as the sleeping prince and Bill Pullman as the man Bullock eventually discovers is her true love. Bullock plays a token taker on the Chicago El who, while admiring Gallager from afar, has never spoken to him. She saves Gallager's life in an accident that leaves him temporarily in a coma. His family, clustered around his bedside, mistakes Bullock for his fiance (a fiction she encourages) and we're off in a movie thatTIME movie reviewer Richard Schickelsays recaptures the true spirit...
...fuss about being the council's second-in-charge and official attendance taker...
...Keely, and her grandmotherly keeper, Du. Part of the closeness is their natural sympathy as women beleaguered by men. Part is a shared, stereotypically feminine impulse to focus on an individual situation more than an abstract principle. Part, too, is the "Stockholm syndrome" of intimacy between hostage and hostage taker as a way of enduring forced togetherness. The effect is especially strong in this situation because, unlike most hostages, the young woman has no fear of being murdered -- her captors are desperate to keep her alive, if only as an incubator...
...some said, it's not the test conditions but the taker that determines theresult...