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...campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive jumping among the surfer and industry-big-shot set. The real attraction is 72-year-old proprietor Bill Fischler, who lords over his young cook Alfredo and his gorgeous Valkyrian waitress Veronica while he greets and gooses the customers. Part W.C. Fields, part Walter Matthau (plus a bit of the Three Stooges' Curly Howard tossed in), Fischler is a wisecracking curmudgeon with style. And with customers like Fischler's, style counts...
...Permissiveness" is the standard explanation, meaning that we have become a slack-willed race, slaves to every passing genital urging. Why else would a man take up with a gorgeous blond cocktail waitress, forgetting that, for all practical purposes, he already had one at home? Permissiveness, according to the theory, makes us contemptuous of such "traditional values" as loyalty, self-sacrifice and the old till-death-do-us-part type of marriage...
...talent for winsome characterization. Taylor's plucky mother leaves an uncommunicative new husband so devoted to silence that he sprays WD-40 on anything that squeaks. ( Taylor's boyfriend, Jax Thibodeaux, got his first name from his mother's favorite brand of New Orleans beer. Barbie, a waitress-entertainer, blithely forges $20 bills on a copy machine. Even the formidable Ms. Fourkiller has a high sweetheart quotient...
...question, Heart and Souls is a cry movie in every stitch of its elaborate plot. In 1959 four strangers -- a working mother (Alfre Woodard), a petty thief (Tom Sizemore), a waitress in love (Kyra Sedgwick) and a timid opera singer (Charles Grodin) -- board a San Francisco bus and die when the driver swerves to avoid a car. In that car, at that moment, a woman gives birth to a boy, Thomas; and in his body the spirits of the four dead passengers are trapped. Today the ghosts have learned that Thomas (Robert Downey Jr.) can perform one act for each...
...cafe a few miles away, the waitress looks haggard. "It started at 5:30 this morning," she says. "Groups of eight to 12, 14 at one time. And they're talking they want more real estate . . . and we don't want 'em buying more...