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...Coneheads," the new Dan Aykroyd-Jane Curtin comedy about pointy-headed aliens who immigrate to Earth, is, as its main characters would say, a celluloid presentation with only one amusement unit...
Fortunately, that joke--the aliens vs. American culture thing--works. Aykroyd is Beldar and Curtin his wife Prymaat. They hail from Remulak, a planet many zerls away (that's 2.17 light years) which rotates around the Black Hole (the center of its binary system...
Based on a moldering script by director Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin, Toys is informed by a sensibility still more antique: 1960s peacenik. It posits a conflict for control of a family toy company between a near holy fool (Robin Williams) and his uncle, a retired Army general (Michael Gambon) who wants to convert the plant to military-weapons production. Both are predictable types. Their employees are so sweetly innocent one longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer...
...Wilbur Theater will run the show for three weeks, but change the actors each week--from February 11-16 Lauren Bacall and Richard Kiley, from February 18-23 Jane Curtin and Edward Herrmann, and from February 25-March 1 Charlton Heston and Alexis Smith...
Although I have not seen Curtin and Herrmann or Heston and Smith (for obvious reasons), it seems hard to imagine either pair lousing up Gurney's script. Each of the four actors boasts extensive stage experience, and the roles of Andy and Melissa should pose no problem for them. In fact, it seemed that Kiley and Bacall enjoyed their roles, and they made the portrayal of Andy and Melissa seem effortless...