Word: wises
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...Various wise people told me I shouldn't come in and try to do this."-Joseph F. Fletcher...
...feminine side of his nature and becoming a better man because of the experience, it triumphantly remains a farce for our times, not a tract for them. Despite the many creative hands involved, the picture has perfect comic tonality. It plays as if it were written by one wise and rueful individual, directed by someone who never felt a moment's anxiety...
...singing in roadhouses and passing the hat. He could also use a driver who can keep both him and his car on the straight and narrow until he can keep his appointment with a modest destiny. Seems as though his nephew Whit, a skinny boy of 14, but watchfully wise for his age and an ace wheelman, might fill the bill...
...surprising that the most isolated character (Martin Sheen's alcoholic) appears in the best light. His deflating cynicism scores even when it sails in from outside one of Miller's shots, as it sometimes peculiarly does. The coach is played hard by Robert Mitchum, whose wise and cynical presence just does not suit a man living on nostalgia and dead ideas. The rest of the solid cast includes Bruce Bern, Stacy Keach and Paul Sorvino, who have their moments. But these never add up to persuasive performances...
MAYOR VINCENT CIANCI of Providence reacted less wisely by loudly refusing to accede to requests that his government take down a creche it had placed on the City Hall steps. Vowing to fight a suit that will be filed this week by the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Cianci portrayed himself as a champion of piety to reporters: "I've talked with the ACLU in the past, and what I've told them is they're jealous because they don't have three wise men and a virgin in their whole organization...