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Unlike its sterile American counterpart You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen, which also seeks to identify the different languages men and women speak, Les Hommes et Les Femmes regards the chasm between men and women as being ultimately unbridgeable. They also chide American feminists for going too far in attempting to eradicate the difference between men and women...
...Ryan O'Neal have set back their careers about 10 years (three for her; seven for him) by fronting another grueling CBS entry, Good Sports. Fawcett plays Gayle Roberts, a veteran anchor for an all-sports network run by a Ted Turner-like mogul. O'Neal is "Downtown" Bobby Tannen, an ex-football star fallen on hard times, who is brought in to be her on-air partner. Their bickering, Moonlighting-style relationship is signaled none too subtly in the opening cast credits: "Farrah Fawcett vs. Ryan O'Neal...
...push the car up to warp speed. Romantic: frenetic Doc smitten by love for -- who else in a western? -- Mary Steenburgen's lovely schoolmarm. Deliciously anticipated: the appearance of Marty's bullying nemesis Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), this time got up as his distant ancestor Buford ("Mad Dog") Tannen, the dumbest gun in the West...
...here as there is for anything else. It is like Back to the Future, Part II. In the movie Doc Brown goes to a blackboard and draws a chart. The top line is history as it actually occurred. But if you make this teeny little change, which is Biff Tannen getting that sports almanac, then history veers off. It isn't that it is random that it happened the second way. You see, people mistakenly think that my book Wonderful Life is a claim that evolution is random, totally chaotic and unexplainable. That is not what historical explanation holds...
...figures his life has been utterly insignificant. He says, "I wish I had never been born," and then follows that famous ten-minute scene that shows the town of Bedford Falls had George Bailey never been born. It is an alternate reality, like the town with Biff Tannen's hotel. Everybody is much worse off in the town because Mr. Potter owns it now. Therefore even apparently insignificant things, like one man's life in a small town, make an enormous difference...