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Port Moresby (John Malkovich), the protagonist of Bowles' story and of the swank, sexy, bleak and very beautiful film that Bernardo Bertolucci has made from it, is traveling with his wife Kit (Debra Winger) and an upper-class twit of a friend (Campbell Scott). He lands in Algeria, a hot, arid country where each hotel is more primitive than the last and the transportation, when there is any, is mostly by truck and camel. There are pestilential insects everywhere; the breakfast tray comes with a DDT spray can. When Kit isn't complaining about the heat or the stupidity...
...Bangkok in an emergency. Such sentiments sound saccharine, but Safire's friends tend to remember gifts he gave them 30 years ago. For Barbara Walters, who worked with him in p.r. in the late 1950s, it was a black, shorty nightgown -- presented not as a romantic gesture but to twit her for being too prim. "Bill was saying, in effect, 'Loosen up,' " she recalls. Safire was introduced to Helene in 1962 by motion-picture executive Edward Bleier. After a whirlwind wedding, Safire presented Bleier with a silver matchbox engraved, "To Ed, the perfect matchmaker from one of his matches...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are Twins. Leslie Nielsen' s dim detective in The Naked Gun is a heroic twit. Both films offer dollops of undemanding holiday...
What is left onscreen is a faithfully translated narrative. Jamie loses his job, loses his wife, uses his friends, mostly in the pursuit of drugs. But his story is an attenuated one, and when it is told flatly, Jamie turns into a terrible twit, alternately superior and self-pitying, especially with a sympathetic older colleague (Swoosie Kurtz) at the New Yorker-like magazine where both work. The fact that his mother loved him but died does not really excuse him. The fact that Fox brings the sympathy he has won, and the comic elan he has perfected, on television cannot...
Rufus:"Who you callin 'Thir', twit...