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...those troubled times. It is the story of a romance that Maureen Dean knew was fated to occur from the moment she met the "Brooks Brothers" tan; a romance that began with this message, scrawled in lipstick by Dean on a motel room mirror: "Smile...an owl loves ya, loves ya, yes, loves ya...
...come 200 miles just to avoid Curt Gowdy's voice. I heard American Opticals named Larry Barnett Man of the Year. Hey Rose, you stiff, go back to middle America. Hey Eddy bring me back a beah will ya...
...into frenzied wisecracking when his plans crumble. Pacino has some of Woody Allen's earnest ineptitude: raiding the cash registers, he tries to burn the receipts in a compulsive fit and causes a wastebasket fire that attracts passerbys. "I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody, ya understand?" he screams in a panic, upsetting a potted fern. Instead of getting out fast, he dawdles so long that he's soon surrounded by police...
...would have done just as well. These greedy gambits for recognition are cutely or comically presented and then quickly filed away. Any social comment they could have made is overshadowed by bell-ringer lines like Sonny's bleated "We're Vietnam veterans, so killing means nothing to us, ya understand...
...Calaveras County California frog-jumping contest. Owners and managers and trainers and just plain rowdies stomp up and down on the platform trying to scare their amphibians into leaping. The film ends with the soaring elongation of frogs flying for the edge of the platform. Realism gets its ya-ya's out when one bounces off the camera...