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...effetes moved by nostalgia, snobbery and fear. A Puritan, goes the old joke, is a person who lives in mortal fear that someone somewhere is having fun. A Hollywood Puritan is a person who lives in mortal fear that someone somewhere is watching Ingrid Bergman blush red in Rick's Cafe...
Little Shop is the story of Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis), a nebbishy orphan raised by a nearly bankrupt Skid Row florist, Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia). Seymour spends each day slaving away in Mushnik's shop, kept alive by his two loves: botany and Audrey (Ellen Greene), the dipsy platinum blonde store clerk. One day Seymour buys a mysterious plant from a Chinese merchant--a plant we later learn has come from outer space with intent to conquer the world...
Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) is a skid row nerd, languishing in Mushnik's Flower Shop. He loves the tramp goddess Audrey (Ellen Greene), but she too willingly suffers the bondage and discipline of the notorious Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin). Not until Seymour strikes a Faustian bargain with a talking plant he calls Audrey II does our hero find the girl of his dreams. And the killer vegetation of his most festering nightmares...
Harvard went without first-line center Allen Bourbeau, who was sidelined with a head cold. Rather than mix up his remaining three lines, all of which have been playing well, Cleary inserted senior Rick Haney--who had not played all year--on the first line. The Duluth native responded with a strong performance...
...since 1980 the Pacific Rim has superseded Western Europe as America's most important overseas trading partner. The Vladivostok speech showed that the Soviets intend to claim a share of Asia's economic success. Some analysts also heard an implied threat to U.S. military supremacy in the region. Says Rick Fisher of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington: "The Soviet goal in Asia is power...