Elwood Reid He Didn’t Six By Ronald Sklar Elwood Reid and I have formed the I-Love-Richard-Price Club. You already may (and should) know that Richard Price (The Wanderers, Ladies’ Man, Blood Brothers and Clockers) is the most brilliant working-class writer who ever lived. Elwood and I worship and adore him. So, kids: now you know the yin-yang of … Continue reading
BABY GENIUSES (1999) Starring Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise, Ruby Dee, Kyle Howard, Kay Ballard and Randy Travis. Screenplay by Bob Clark and Greg Michael. Directed by Bob Clark Distributed by Columbia/Tri-Star Pictures. Rated PG. 95 minutes. That splat you just heard was Kathleen Turner’s once promising career finally hitting … Continue reading
FORCES OF NATURE (1999) Starring Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn, Blythe Danner, Ronny Cox, Richard B. Schiff and David Strickland. Screenplay by Marc Lawrence. Directed by Bronwen Hughes. Distributed by Dreamworks Pictures. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. This film is so enjoyable as you watch it that you don’t quite notice that it is somewhat … Continue reading
ANALYZE THIS (1999) Starring Robert DeNiro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Chazz Palmenteri, Joseph Rigano, Joe Viterelli, Richard C. Castellano, Molly Shannon, Max Casella, Bill Macy, Rebecca Schull, Pat Cooper, Leo Rossi and Tony Bennett. Screenplay by Peter Tolan, Harold Ramis and Kenneth Lonergan. Directed by Harold Ramis. Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures. Rated R. 103 … Continue reading
OFFICE SPACE (1999) Starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Ajay Naidu, David Herman, Gary Cole, Stephen Root, Richard Riehle, Alexandra Wentworth, Joe Bays, John C. McGinley, Paul Willson, Greg Pitts, Mike Judge and Diedrich Bader. Screenplay by Mike Judge. Directed by Mike Judge. Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. 90 minutes. Rated R. The first live action … Continue reading
Chuck E. Weiss Chuck E.’s In Love by Jay S. Jacobs “How come he don’t come and p.l.p. with me down at the meter no more…” With that opening line to a hit song in 1979, singer/songwriter Chuck E. Weiss was introduced to American popular culture. Problem was he didn’t write the song – or … Continue reading
Vincent Patrick Putting Up a Smoke Screen by Ronald Sklar If you lead a squeaky clean (read: deadly dull) existence, chances are the closest you’ll ever get to an exhilarating, rewarding life of crime is by reading the great works of Vincent Patrick. His two previous novels, The Pope of Greenwich Village and Family Business, … Continue reading
PATCH ADAMS (1998) Starring Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Frances Lee McCain, Harve Presnell, Peter Coyote, Michael Jeter, Richard Kiley, Ellen Albertini Dow, Jay Jacobus and Harold Gould. Screenplay by Steve Oedekerk. Directed by Tom Shadyac. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. … Continue reading
YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Dave Chapelle, Steve Zahn, Dabney Coleman, Michael Badalucco and Greg Kinnear. Screenplay by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron. Directed by Nora Ephron. Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures. Rated PG. 119 minutes. The latest chapter in the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks flirtation, You’ve Got Mail is … Continue reading
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998) Starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rupert Everett, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Martin Clunes, Tom Wilkinson, Simon Callow, Steve O’Donnell and Sandra Reinton. Screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman. Directed by John Madden. Distributed by Miramax Pictures. 122 minutes. Rated R. Proof in these post-Farrelly times that … Continue reading
