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...acknowledges Charles Weaver, an administrative assistant at the Oklahoma Alcohol and Beverage Commission, at almost every one of those 1500 clubs you can get an illegal glass of liquor or wine. With only 18 enforcement officers for the whole state. Weaver says the commission has all it can handle in looking after the 840 package stores which are legally licensed to sell liquor...
Artie brings home a girl (Cynthia Nixon) as a "care package" for his friends. "She worked the last time I tried her," he explains. Eddie and Mickey already share a woman (Sigourney Weaver, whose striking physical presence provides a marvelous ironic contrast to her dithering sensibility). Phil steals his own child, beats up a bubble dancer (Judith Ivey) and finally kills himself. At the end, Eddie is frantically leafing through the dictionary, hoping to find in his pal's suicide note an anagram that will reveal the meaning in an apparently meaningless...
ENGAGED. Sigourney Weaver, 34, cool, willowy actress (The Year of Living Dangerously, Ghostbusters); and Jim Simpson, 28, a theatrical director; in Honolulu. The marriage will be the first for both...
...first sign that the end is drawing nigh occurs when a perfectly normal and respectable young woman (Sigourney Weaver) opens her refrigerator door to stow the celery. Instead of confronting yesterday's quiche, she finds herself face to face with the hound of hell, all red-eyed and snappish, with a dreamscape hinting of unspeakable mysteries stretching out behind him. It is here that the film begins to transcend the generic limits of the annual summer giggle fit for the old Saturday Night Live crowd...
Shrewd and stupid, sly and blustering, but always coolly gliding to some strong rhythm only he can hear, Venkman is a brilliantly observed caricature of the contemporary urban male. At one point Weaver, representing the reality principle, informs him that he seems less a scientist than a game-show host. But he is a far more amusing figure. He is, in fact, some ultimate Yuppie, seemingly stoned on fern-bar manners, mores and folk wisdom. His utter imperviousness to anything that cannot be comprehended in those basic materialist terms is finally a more potent weapon than all the atomic gadgetry...