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...course of a few days on the job as an investigative reporter for a Los Angeles daily, Irwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase) presents himself to various sources as G. Gordon Liddy, Harry S. Truman, Igor Stravinsky, Don Corleone and Arnold Babar (as in the elephant). He also makes up a few monikers: Mr. Poon from the SEC, for example, and John Coctosea ("it's Scotch-Rumanian"). Sometimes he does not bother with name-dropping; he just gets a false beard or teeth from the novelty store and skips blithely into and out of trouble...
Writer Bergman has a million of these one-liners, and Actor Chase, whose funniest movie this is, has a way with them that is very ingratiating. He falls about a bit in his patented manner, but basically he keeps surprising ) with the competence that lies just beneath his disarming air of distractedness. In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. Incidentally, they add greatly to the movie's suspense. Every minute you expect the hero's loose...
...best work (Smile, The Bad News Bears) is acutely observant of manners and morals on every rung of the American ladder. Here everything from the way members treat servants at a posh tennis club to direct-mail advertising receives a glancing satiric blow from his camera. Even the car chase in Fletch is witty and believable and something an adult can attend without flinching. As the adolescent revels of summer wear on, that alone could make it a movie to cherish...
...most honored senior painter in France -- indeed the most important French visual artist of any kind to emerge since World War II. In the past two decades alone, his oeuvre had filled eight full-scale museum retrospectives and countless one-man shows from Chicago to Paris. Large corporations like Chase Manhattan saw him as a wild pet laden with status, and commissioned huge, dull sculptures from him for their plazas. His fiercely polemical essays, long-winded but dense with aphorism, were collected in two thick volumes. (Nobody has written more eloquently in defense of illiteracy than Dubuffet; in this...
...Reagan's invitation to meet with Gorbachev. The Soviet Foreign Minister did not take the lure. The Americans concluded that at present Gorbachev is more concerned with internal affairs than with diplomatic initiatives. The U.S., for its part, does not want to appear overeager. "It's obviously stupid to chase after the Soviets," said a top official. Whether there is a summit, he said, "is now up to them...