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Close it and hope people don't remember I'll Do Anything as the last action musical. "Jim was trying something very interesting," says actor-writer- director Albert Brooks (no kin), who plays a Hollywood mogul in the film. "But that doesn't mean that if it didn't work, the project doesn't work. After all, every single thing in our lives was something else before we got to it. Would you like to stand in a restaurant and watch them cook your meal? If you saw the Mona Lisa three weeks into it . . ." He pauses. "Actually, the Mona...
...right then, let's take Albert Brooks at his word and not mince superlatives. I'll Do Anything is better than the Mona Lisa. It's 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...
...Class of '69 is moving into its respective dorms. In the corridors of Mower, two young men are introduced for the first time. "Tommy Lee Jones, meet your new roommate Albert Gore...
Doctors have a natural interest in preventing nuclear war, says Dr. Victor W. Sidel, a 1957 Medical School graduate and professor of social medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. "Our job as physicians is not only to treat illness but also to prevent trauma...
Prodded by the disclosure of secret talks between London and the I.R.A., Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds met with his British counterpart, John Major, to discuss an end to 25 years of violence in Northern Ireland. "There was a strong exchange of views," said Reynolds...