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...also pretty darned fine as a movie, though it takes a while to find its pace and tone. You won't miss the songs; this is not the husk of a musical. It is a lovely, wayward comedy in high Jim Brooks style, with all his pinwheeling wit and edgy ruminations. Who needs production numbers? I'll Do Anything still sings...
...beauty parlor because he had helped reattach the offending organ known to be commandos from the National Organization for Women. In fact, the really interesting thing about the Bobbitt affair is the huge divergence it reveals between high- powered feminist intellectualdom, on the one hand, and your average office wit or female cafeteria orator, on the other...
...between pumps her way around the rink. But within the past 15 months she has decided to add some discipline to her act. Her stroking is smoother, her program better paced. She is talented enough to execute difficult moves correctly and zany enough not to lose her wit and vitality if she chooses...
...Holloway's cutesy capering as Eliza's debauched father, Dolores Sutton's vamping as Higgins' mother and sets that make the Covent Garden flower market look like a Florida condo in mid- construction and render Higgins' study fit for a Vincent Price horror flick, Chamberlain shows calculated charm and wit. He sings better than Rex Harrison and looks terrific. His best scenes are with the normally bland Pickering, whom Paxton Whitehead makes droll...
...physical production is much the same, but the elaborate set movements mesh better. Designer John Napier has added one brilliant flash of wit. After Norma's epic mad scene ("I'm ready for my close-up"), a scrim falls and reveals an image of Close, looking girlish and made up in the beestung-lip style of the 1920s. It is, chillingly, the only time one sees Norma's legendary screen face...