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• Picture this: you're an av-
erage kind of guy who doesn't
do too well with women. You
need a date for the big com-
pany dinner, so your brother
fixes you up with his wife's
cousin. You go to pick her up,
and she turns out to be -
Kim Basinger!
A male fantasy come true,
yes? For here is the abso-
lutely perfect woman. A' Bo
Derek with brains and per-
sonality.
Well, as it turns out in the
new comedy, Blind Date,
(Rated: PG-13) this male fan-
tasy goes very much awry. It
seems that the character
played by the beauteous
Basinger goes berserk when
she imbibes even the littlest
bit of alcohol. And, in this
state, she completely de-
molishes the clothing, car
and career of her feckless
date.
That's pretty much the
story of Blind Date. So what
have we got left? A ton of
nifty slapstick sequences that
are bound to make you laugh
at one time or another.
Along with the ravishing
Basinger, the film stars
Bruce Willis, famed on TV's
Moonlighting. The director is
the master of this kihd of
slapstick farce, Blake Ed-
wards. Screenplay is by Dale
Launer who wrote Ruthless
People. Score is by Henry
Mancini. There must have
been some pretty heady Hol-
lywood days when this pack-
age was assembled!
Blind Date may be the big
box-office break-through for
Basinger. She's been in an
almost never-ending stream
of movies recently. It would
appear that the poor girl
hasn't had a day off in the
last couple of years! And she
hasn't had a big winner yet,
either. But this may be it.
Edwards is at the top of his
form in this one. The timing
on the slapstick gags is near
perfection and reminds one of
his earlier Pink Panther
series.
There is a very nice crazed
bit by John Larroquette as
Basinger's rejected lover.
This is a distinctly Edwards
character, played very much
like Richard Mulligan in
S.O.B.
Launer hasn't done nearly
as well with this screenplay
as he did with Ruthless
People. The script is slight.
But it moves, picking up
momentum as it goes, and fi-
nally is humming on all
cylinders in the final se-
quences.
Kim Basinger:
Bo Derek with brains
A light-as-air confection
that has some charming per-
formers, including Kim
Basinger in her best screen
role so far, this is not the
worst Blind Date you could
have.
Some Kind of Wonderful
(Rated: PG-13), written and
produced by John Hughes,
has a set of stereotypical
characters and situations,
and yet it manages to be ex-
ceptionally believable and
charming.
As in his big hit Sixteen
Candles, Hughes is once
again telling a story about
high schoolers and teen ro-
mance.
At first blush, you might
wonder how anyone could
dare to attempt a story with
this hackneyed set-up: nerdy
boy is unaware that his tom-
boy girl pal secretly loves
him; he, all the while, has an
unrealistic crush on the
"Prom Queen" who is selling
herself short to be with the
sleazy rich boy.
You'd think that any self-
respecting writer would im-
mediately discard such a
time-worn set-up. But give
credit to Hughes. If he
doesn't succeed in alchemiz-
ing this dross into gold, he
does turn it into something
with a luster all its own.
The performers are all be-
lievable. The dialogue is
bright and breezy, and
sounds real. One quibble -
Eric Stolz as the nerdy guy is
really too good looking to be
a completely acceptable nerd.
We know he's going to turn
out all right.
Lea Thompson is a
standout as the tomboy girl
pal. Whether deliberate or
not, her style, mannerisms
and even her look reminded
me so much of Jessica Lange