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Soon after arriving there he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a masochist who is perhaps not quite as smart and tough as she thinks she is, and thus obviously in line for a painful comeuppance. What could be more appealing to her than a relationship with the visibly doomed...
...that popular culture satirizes nerds, they are still a likable group. Although they are ostracized, their place in society is more secure than other fringe cultures. Both mocked and feared, most accounts are ultimately sympathetic and advocate their vindication. But Larry Shue's The Nerd is an exception. The play's nemesis terrorizes the characters for two acts. (I was about ready to round up a posse from the audience and bind and gag him.) As a comedy of manners, The Nerd show-cases various quirks and idiosyncrasies possessed by different classes. Everyone is weird, the play seems...
...tacked-on ending seems like an easy way out of the spiral of commotion that the events build up to. It's as if Shue finally agreed to consent and said, "Enough!" But the abrupt change reads more like an easy way out of a fine mess. As the grand finale approaches, all of the characters are running around the room, slopping food on each other, and singing. Their ruckus is ingratiating in small spurts but after a while it becomes annoying theater. Like dupes, they try to mimic the Nerd in the hopes that he'll be repulsed...
Billy (Andrew Shue) and Alison (Courtney Thorne-Smith) are riding out a bumpy relationship. He moves to New York for a job; she flies there for a visit, but catches him with another woman. They make up and spend a passionate night together -- so passionate that Billy calls L.A. and orders all her belongings packed up and moved to New York. Then he can't understand why she's upset. "How many guys do you know," he insists, "who are as sensitive...
...cast probably deserves more of the credit. The actors lounging around the swimming pool on Melrose Avenue are as drop-dead gorgeous as any on TV. Unfortunately, looks aren't everything. Andrew Shue, the chief male & heartthrob, is a nebbishy nonentity who seems disengaged and scarcely able to mouth his lines. ("In thole world, all I really care about is you.") And Heather Locklear, whose addition to the cast last year as bitchy Amanda is credited with turning the show around, doesn't have the evildoing pizazz of a Joan Collins or Larry Hagman. In a typical act of mischief...