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...heels of Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year and The Stuntman, he plays the infinitely lovable, brutally sarcastic megalomaniac whose heart of gold is barely outlasting his liver. It's the Irish role, and we've seen it oh so many times before. Here, he portrays Jason Carmichael, "a witty, talented, acerbic, sarcastic, but always charming" and highly successful New York playwright. The day of his wedding to a glamorous socialite (Janet Eilber) also marks the beginning of a literary collaboration cum romantic entanglement with an aspiring young writer called Phoebe Craddock. Schoolmarmish, sweet, and socially inept...
Considering the script, Steenburgen's portrayal of Phoebe is an impeccable one. Unfortunately, this does not make her a viable romantic focus. All smiles, playing with ducks and little children, helping Jason's pregnant wife do her exercises, or just staring, wide-eyed, at Jason, she is about as engaging as a Hallmark card. Although Steenburgen does try, there's no room for the pizzazz of her Oscar-winning portrayal of the long-suffering wife in Melvin and Howard here...
Another notably-assassinated character is Allison, Jason's attractive, ambitious wife. Had she not been burdened with Eilbert's wooden acting or lines like "I am not jealous of Phoebe--I am jealous of the ongoing love-affair the two of you have with the theatre," she might have provided the movie with a sorely-needed foil...
...Everyone sounds remarkably alike; in fact, everyone sounds as if he had spent the last month studying what lovers say in Ladies' Home Journal stories. What is more, it seems incredible for a group this consistently in eloquent to be enjoying high-flying literary careers. A case in point: Jason meets Leo, a reporter who has been spending his time "just hanging around." "I hear you're an expert on Russia," Jason says. "Dah. I speak the lingo," comes the reply. A little later, Leo--after weeks of puppy-eyed stares at Phoebe --confesses he has written a feature story...
When tenants of the fresh Pond Apartments--commonly known as Rindge Towers--came to last week's council meeting to complain that they were being unjustly forced out of their apartments, Jason J. Timmons, executive vice-president of the Federal Management Co., which runs the apartment complex, was absent because of illness...