Haste makes waste (6/17/97)
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Trigger Happy. [aka
Mad Dog Time. Larry Bishop, 1996.]
A twisted comedy of manners about the gangwar precipitated by the news that the local Godfather is coming home from the mental hospital. — Richard Dreyfuss as the paranoid-schizophrenic mob boss; Jeff Goldblum as a womanizing shootist; Billy Idol, Christopher Jones, and Larry Bishop as his rivals for the title of fastest gun in the casino; Michael J. Pollard, Gabriel Byrne, Kyle MacLachlan, Gregory Hines, and Burt Reynolds as assorted casualties of war; Joey Bishop and Richard Pryor as walkons; Angie Everhart as the babe tending the door [and she can certainly tend mine]; and Ellen Barkin and Diane Lane as the Everly Sisters.
Swingers. [Doug Liman, 1996.]
A brokenhearted guy from New York hangs around Hollywood with his buddies, trying unsuccessfully to rid himself of the seeming curse his exgirlfriend laid upon him when she left him for another. After recapitulating the misadventures of the early Woody Allen with somewhat lamer dialogue, he regains his selfconfidence and instantly scores. — Not to complain, but just once I’d like to see a realistic version of this story: one in which, e.g., the guy’s friends abandon him as a hopeless loser and he goes ten years without getting laid and finally moves to Wyoming to become a sheep rancher.
Cameron’s
Titanic: Today’s estimate is that it’s up to two hundred eighty-five million dollars; and the meter’s still running. What will they think of next.
____________Anaconda (6/5/97)
