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...from the film's opening scenes, where Sarandon burns toast and Dreyfuss battles with his talking scale, The Buddy System leaves little to the audience's imagination. We know before Wheaton ever meets his ideal father that Dreyfuss will play Daddy Warbucks and take the kid under his wing, and that Sarandon will become his new playmate. The plot ostensibly thickens when Dreyfuss's old girlfriend--a mindless blonde who parrots '60s cliches--returns. But the audience has little doubt that everything will somehow work out when the three are seen happily planting tomatoes in the garden...
...film's failure to transcend conventional stereotype is as cumbersome as its reliance on stock gags and "cute" statements. Director Jordan's idea of humor--falling brooms and burning toast--is admittedly a sign of domestic chaos, but certainly an insufficient ploy to keep the audience in hysterics. Similarly, Wheaton's gratuitous use of slang phrases like "shit" and "knocked up" quickly becomes sophomoric and intellectually insulting to the audience...
...appears to have been-small cough behind back of the hand-a family affair. In the pre-Reagan-Thatcher days, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Jay, and his wife Margaret were the toast of the New York-Washington social circuit. Then came Mrs. Jay's more or less public affair with Watergate Heavyweight Carl Bernstein, subsequently chronicled with gusto by his former wife Nora Ephron, 42, in the bestselling Heartburn. Now it develops that while Ephron was turning to a novel to get satisfaction, Jay was turning elsewhere. Last week, Jane Tustian, 33, live-in nanny...
...Ronald Reagan had a double meaning in his toast last week to China's visiting Premier Zhao Ziyang when he saw good fortune for both nations in the "Year of the Pig" just past. Redskins Quarterback Joe Theismann, a guest at the elegant dinner, read it right. Just to be certain nothing was lost, Reagan whispered to a friend on the dance floor, "There's a good omen in that for those Hogs...
Throughout his New World adventure, however, Lafayette remained curiously immune to the principles he was fighting for. "It had not yet occurred to him that democracy was for export," writes Bernier. The soldier returned to France an enthusiastic supporter of the ancien régime. Yet as the toast of Paris salons, he met some of the new egalitarian thinkers of the day and became a genuine convert to the cause of democracy. His new ideals and his ever growing popularity drew him into the French Revolution, and at 31 he became vice president of the new National Assembly...