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...plot is ingenious, and goes a little like one of those jokes that begins, "This guy goes to heaven, OK?..." In this case Joe Pendleton, a boxer, (or in Warren Beatty's version a professional football player, but then this play has gone through almost as many permutations as the jokes) is apparently about to die in a plane crash, and a newly hired angel, hoping to spare him some suffering, takes his soul a little early...
This rescue, as it turns out, was premature, as Pendleton wasn't fated to die for another 60 years. Before the snafu comes to light, however, his body has all too promptly been cremated. The heavenly officials are left no other choice but to offer Joe the option of taking someone else's body, and he chooses that of a millionaire banker whose wife and her lover have just drowned the genuine item in a bathtub...
JOHN Ducey, as the hapless, would-be champ, is clearly the driving force behind the show. He plays Pendleton with a goofy, aw-shucks grin reminiscent of Warren Beatty's but adds the distinct nuance of a die-hard Bruins fan. Draped in a baggy sweatsuit and perpetually bouncing on the toes of his high-top sneakers, Ducey's Pendleton doesn't quite pull off the New Jersey punk of the script, but his portrayal of the native Boston variety is equally winning. There's something about a really thick Boston accent, liberally sprinkled with words like "dame...
...Richman '90 of Winthrop House and Westport, Connecticut, Sales Manager John T. Schiavone '89 of Cabot House and Flushing, New York, Finance Manager, Amy J. Merritt '90 of Lowell House and Roslyn, New York, Advertising Manager, Angela C. Chaves '89 of Quincy House and Hudson, Massachusetts, Circulation Manager, Michael Pendleton of Mather House and Kaukaura, Wisconsin, Circulation Manager, Andrew A. Samwick '89 of Dunster House and Palm Beach Garden, Florida, Operations Manager, Anil K. Shrivastava '90 of Dunster House and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Production Manager...
Like a phoenix rising from its ashes, Lucy pulls herself together. With the help of eccentric millionaire Hastings Lacey Jr. (Austin Pendleton), she opens up her own daycare center and becomes the focus of her own publicity campaign--all in a day's work. To make the fairy tale complete, on to the scene arrives the handsome prince, Dr. Scanlon (Gabriel Byrne), whose swarthy good looks win over Lucy's affections...