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...certain factory in a quiet part of South Boston something very strange is happening. Every day, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., a steady stream of men can be seen entering and leaving this room. When they go in, the men have a vaguely scruffy look and finger a thick stubble of half-grown beard. When they go out, however, they are smooth and trim, clean-shaven, and smelling faintly of lotions and creams. This is the Shaving Research Room, the living heart of the world's largest razor blade factory: Gillette Corp.'s World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston...
...probably a good bet that this young Crimson squad--although it will lose senior starters Linda Runyon, Bambi Taylor, Anne Kelly and Alicia Clifton--will be in the thick of the Ivy race next year...
George's other responsibility is his late parents' retirement home in a tiny coastal village in Cornwall. He settles there because he has nowhere else to go, but he looks seaward and makes odious comparisons: "In Bom Porto, the Atlantic was milky green, thick as soup. At this time of year it swarmed with plankton, and in certain lights you seemed to see the sea wriggle with life. It was easy to imagine the first things crawling out of it and starting in on their colonial adventure. This northern sea was different, more coldly sophisticated. If you thought about...
...this film lays the sauce on thick. Cheap melancholy violin strains, again a la Mama Leone's, drip over each scene, happy or sad. All things Italian are overdone like a microwaved lasagna. Wild emotional responses ooze over the stock stereotypical Italian characters we've come to be bored with over the years, such as the psychic grandmother and--could you have guessed--the mob. And the ending drags on like a meal of wet noodles. Beginning to feel indigestion...
Surprisingly, this movie has a thick plot for films of its caliber. On one level, the movie depicts the creation of Remo Williams, defender of the American way. On another, Remo wins his first battle with...