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...COURTSHIP of Peter and Patricia makes for sometimes hilarious entertainment, but it never descends into mere farce. Both lovers are forced to confront their own flaws: Peter is caught shoplifting, and Patricia battles her fear of sex. Director Paul Cox never lets the comic episodes detract from the seriousness of the pair's problems, but rather lets them compliment the underlying drama...
...modern King Lear." (Then what's Dallas? Oedipus Tex?) This and the other new dramas offer the easy thrills of a paperback bought at a bus terminal; even the season's best sitcoms, Just Our Luck and Mr. Smith, are no more demanding than a vintage comic book in Dad's attic. Still, trash has its charms. Herewith a look at ten fall shows, good, bad and same-different...
...plays the guitar like a grownup Rick Springfield. As a conversationalist he can be gently witty, without Letterman's sting or Carson's quickness. "I'm cool in the McLuhan sense," he says. Describing himself as an Everyman, he is uncomfortable with the label of comic: "I'd rather be the genial host at the party...
...among the premier singer-songwriters of his generation. But that was the '70s, and the world is a few months shy of the most dreaded year of the '80s. Browne is ready for it. Lawyers in Love is full of dark Orwellian visions, leavened by some bright comic asides and lightened by some of Browne's most danceable music. The author concedes that the title track is "pretty sarcastic and maybe a little haughty," but its weirdly resonant images ("I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon/ As vacationland for lawyers in love") give it a power...
...also boasts a great Greatest Hits sound track, which finds just the right comic or dramatic settings for such fine '60s songs as You Can't Always Get What You Want, Good Lovin', Ain 't Too Proud to Beg and A Natural Woman. Indeed, the entire film is a kind of sock-hop benefit for Approaching Middle Age. This maturing generation never played Taps with such glamour or good humor. Play the music and let the big chill-the knowledge that "we're all alone out there, and we're going out there tomorrow...