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...Sometimes I feel like just leaving, looking for a normal life," the general manager confessed. "You'll be driving along at 5 a.m. and the window on your truck won't shut all the way and you're freezing to death and you see lights from houses come on and you know there's coffee and a regular breakfast in there somewhere. But I'm hooked, I guess...
...beginning of Blue City looked ever-so-promising: Billy Turner (Judd Nelson) sits scrunched up in the corner of a bus bound for Blue City, quietly brooding as he stares through the window into the darkened landscape. But then, as Billy gets off the bus and stumbles into the bowl-legged dialogue of this disastrously clumsy picture, the facts I had heretofore ignored inserted themselves into my cinematic fantasy...
...trendies are involved in this one. Brat-packsters Nelson and Ally Sheedy are stars, actors who in Bogart's day would be lucky to get a job in a department store window. Walter Hill, the workmanlike directorial panderer who gave us such hyped-up schlock as 48 HRS and Streets of Fire takes credit for co-producing and co-writing, while Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club leftover Michelle Manning directed...
There was a plastic bat and a plastic ball, a thick slate plate, and a chalk batters box. At Jon's house, we used to play hard ball--until Jon fouled one back through his kitchen window. Then we had to play whiff there...
...much feminine radiance that while she's on stage the audience forgets that nothing really interesting is going on. If anything, Gonzalez makes her character too wonderful. Roxanne is a woman who fails to recognize her cousin's handwriting for several years, let alone his voice under her window. A properly realized Roxanne should exhibit some stupidity or self-delusion, but Gonzalez seems at the verge of publishing her dissertation on Romantic poetry...