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...Overhead fans languidly attempt to rearrange the air. Late afternoon heat seeps through the Venetian blinds. A tenor sax investigates the upper registers of despair. Ned Racine (William Hurt) drags voraciously on a nonstop series of cigarettes. He wears a Clark Gable mustache and a Zachary Scott hat. And one night, as a Dorsey-style orchestra plays That Old Feeling, a sleek, tanned woman in white emerges from the darkness of the band shell and into the rest of Ned's life...
...smart," Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) tells Ned at their first meeting. "I like that in a man." She does indeed; Matty is too smart for both of them. A detective friend of Ned's describes her as "one quick, smart broad" whose special gift is relentlessness. At the outset, Matty is trapped in comfortable domesticity, married to a wealthy land speculator (Richard Crenna) 20 years older than she. But her ambition is "to be rich and live in an exotic land." The insurance money that would be hers with her husband's death represents air fare to that...
Seven spinning columns of fire light the late night sky as the Back Alley Street Circus performs the grand finale of its Saturday evening juggling show. "Thought you had the good seats, didn't you," shouts Ned Van Alstyne at the closest onlookers. A bit worried, one boy jumps up from his spot on the Brattle Square traffic island and hurries across the street toward Bailey's. Van Alstyne and his partner finish their startling display, extinguish the last flaming baton, and begin circulating their matching black derbies among the applauding crowd of 100 people...
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, when my friends and I were only approximately of legal age, we patronized an ancient bar in New York City's Yorkville neighborhood--an establishment that was subsequently turned into a singles bar frequented by professional hockey players. Tended by a genial Irish giant named Ned, the bar had fallen on difficult times and was forced to accept the whiskey-sour-or-rum-and-coke indignities of my friends and me. And like all good neighborhood bars, the Shamrock had its share of local bums who always depended on Ned and his colleagues for a nightly snort...
...story could be floated in about four comic-strip balloons. Lex Luthor (an agreeably tuned-down Gene Hackman only briefly abetted by Ned Beatty) is still egocentrically on hand. But he is pretty much a bench warmer for the forces of darkness. The heavyweight heavies now are Zod, Ursa and Non (an unrecognizable Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas and Jack O'Halloran), whom experts in yesterday's trivia will recall as the trio of traitors the good folks of Krypton compressed to the proportions of a flat rock and sent skimming over the ocean of space at the beginning...