Word: trios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glumly harassed studio executive (Walter Matthau), a clinically depressed screenwriter (Charles Grodin) and a frenetic director (Bill Macy) try earnestly to make a movie that "says something" true and < beautiful about love and sex. Since this is exactly the kind of project no one wants anymore, the trio finally fails. Having hung around Hollywood and learned a few things, all three actors offer well-observed and rather sympathetic portrayals of these familiar types. Actor-Producer Grodin's script is anecdotally acute but a little unfocused, and it is not especially well served by William Asher's muzzy direction. Steve Martin...
...started out the three of us, me and Doc and Honey." The trio is first seen performing some honky-tonk behind a wire fence as the roadies loss a beer bottle or two at them. Jenkins, we learn, has survived a lot more than this along the way, and this opening credit sequence qualifies as a classic bit of compacting...
...Quick scenes speak volumes: first, there's the trio, then a baby, then another. Mother Honey Carder (Melinda Dillon) quits the road to care for them and then quits the marriage as Doc's partying gets out of hand. Doc is not lucky in love or money, but some ideas are worse than others a fast-food joint named "Doc Jenkins' Chicken Fried German Food To Go" fails fast...
Burke, LaCrosby and Frettra M. Miller '85, the third member of the trio, decided to produce and perform in "Just Us and Music. Too" after they worked together on "Mood Indigo," a jazz and blues revue that incorporated songs and texts...
...wildly between desperate passion and asceticism. The favoured child of an impressive Mexican woman who died when he was younger and nearly dragged him with her, Jem is, to put it mildly, disturbed. Jezebel, despite being uprooted and a bit lost herself, remains probably the most sane of the trio. She spends the summer with her father in England only to become entangled in a consuming, obsessive passion which is split between Casimir...