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...unreasonable. He needed to find a screen character that he, and the audience, could live with comfortably over the length of an entire movie. For he was essentially a sketch artist, creator on TV's Saturday Night Live of marvelous and curiously healing parodies of racial stereotypes: Tyrone Green, Velvet Jones, the glorious Buckwheat. His best early movies, 48 Hrs. and Trading Places, permitted him the freedom to do variations on these characters, but he didn't have to carry these pictures alone. He had strong co-stars in well-developed roles sharing his burdens...
...Lynch delivered. Wild at Heart is splendidly grotesque and mammothly entertaining -- the director's first for-sure comedy, Blue Velvet for laughs. The plot, from Barry Gifford's noirish novel, is your standard slice of poisoned American pie: a pair of loser-friendly lovers, Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern), hit the road to escape Lula's mom and a phalanx of psychos who vividly illustrate Lula's contention that the "whole world's wild at heart and weird on top." But the picture is charged with so much deranged energy, so many bravura images, that...
...Solomon Gursky Was Here is far more than family saga. On the journey from rawhide to velvet, the Gurskys participate in nearly every event of global importance, from Arctic exploration to the rescue at Entebbe, from Mao's Long March to Nixon's Watergate. Despite the obvious temptations, Richler never reduces them to mere symbols of Jewish persistence or the Canadian past. Each member of his large and hilarious cast has three dimensions and at least two faces...
With patterned tights all the rage, this should be the most colorful summer in a long time. The fall will see cashmere leggings (tights without a foot), in cable knits, wools and especially in velvet. Jean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld, French fans of tights, are emphasizing the leg. So is the hot young American designer, Isaac Mizrahi, who dismisses the '80s as a time of "boring, rote, dress-for-success looks with stock-tie blouses, flannel jackets and henny-looking long, drab skirts...
Herrera has fashioned a demure tweed costume with the merest sigh of a skirt and rust-colored crushed-velvet tights -- guaranteed to conquer any corporate board. But she cautions against the indiscriminate use of patterns. "They have to be very special," she says. "Otherwise you look as if you have a terrible disease on your legs...