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...VICKI SMITH...
...VICKI LOMBARDO...
...script is modeled closely on the high-energy comedies of the '30s and '40s. Jackson's Vicki Allessio is the kind of sassy, intelligent woman with a sure sense of her own vulnerability and dignity that Katharine Hepburn played so well. Segal's Steven Blackburn is a role that Cary Grant both defined and epitomized-a man of charm, still susceptible to being tongue-tied and flummoxed by the right woman...
...grace of both performances summons such fond memories, not only makes such comparisons inevitable, but sustains them. When Vicki and Steve make love, they are usually as raucous as they are tender; when they fight, storm warnings are posted. One frantic free-for-all is prompted by Steve's eagerness to have his prowess appraised. "Did the earth move for you?" he inquires (they are in Spain, after all). "It was very nice," Vicki sniffs, sounding a little as if she were recalling the funeral of a distant relative...
Weininger has taken up his station "to dramatize the importance of low-cost mental health service," explains Vicki Michel, director of the center. "We handle 500 cases a week and we get no public funding...