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Jackson even provides some relief for the West-weary. Believe it or not, there are Polo-Ralph Lauren and Benneton factory outlet stores awaiting die-hard shoppers from the coasts...
HARVARD (64): Tyler Rullman 4-7 0-0 9; Ron Mitchell 3-5 9-12 15; Peter Condakes 2-4 2-3 7; Tarik Campbell 2-4 0-2 4; Ralph James 3-8 4-5 10; Matt McClain 5-10 2-3 12; Mike Minor 1-1 0-0 2; Anikar Chhabra 0-0 1-2 1; Dave LaPointe...
Prickly as porcupines, Deborah and Nick Fifer (Bette Midler and Woody Allen) wander the aisles of a shopping mall that probably exceeds Ralph's palace in square footage, confessing infidelities and trying to patch up a marriage that only this morning looked as solid as the British monarchy. They are constantly distracted by the consumerism bustling around them and by a mime (Bill Irwin) who is as nosy as he is silent and maybe the most amusing thing about the film...
Both King Ralph (written and directed by David Ward) and Scenes from a Mall (directed by Paul Mazursky from a screenplay he wrote with Roger Simon) offer their stars the kind of discombobulating contexts their well-established characters need to function funnily. But curiously enough, it is the film with the more outrageously improbable premise that works best. As the man who wouldn't be King if he could help it, Goodman redeems what might have been just another high-concept comedy for the party of humanity. Despite the fact that they are working a much more subtle idea...
This is partly a matter of image. Goodman has become our designated Everyman, a Ralph Kramden for the '90s but without the splenetic splutter of Jackie Gleason's immortal creation. An intelligence, a sensitivity he can't quite articulate, just possibly a slight sadness, lurk behind Goodman's eyes, and they ground everything he does in reality. Midler, on the other hand, is our great show-biz floozy, and Allen personifies the anxious urban intellect. It is hard to insert their screen personas into the kind of normal, middle- class lives they are supposed to inhabit here. They require highly...