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...Practice of Love" at 7:30 p.m. Thepractice of love and suffering in love. The storyhas several beginnings, returns at the end of thefilm to the beginning in a breathless U-turn...
Despite the many engrossing performances, thefilm fails to overcome its structural problems.Although tongue-in-cheek humor counters much ofits sentimentality, the movie ultimatelyincorporates too many looming issues for it toescape cliche. At times the script just tries abit too hard: in an attempt to make Sonnydifferent from all the other mobsters in previousfilms, Palminteri has made Sonny a gangster who'sread Machiavelli in the joint and can now lectureabout the distinction between feared and hatedleaders. Unfortunately, the weak ending, whichtries to tie all the ends together in one fellswoop, does nothing to resurrect the film...
...establish the atmosphere of the Harvard campus, several scenes will be filmed around Cambridge. The only indoor shooting will be at Watson Rink, but thefilm's crew got permission to photograph the facade of Briggs Hall in the Radcliffe Quad...