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Article: A Fish Called Wanda.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 19, 1988
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FISH CALLED WANDA
A FISH CALLED WANDA has a fish by that name in it, but the fish is only a real fish and can do nothing much beyond getting eaten alive (simulation, never fear!) by Kevin Kline, who also chews up the scenery. There is likewise a girl called Wanda, and she is played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Miss Curtis has very nearly the breastwork of Jessica Rabbit, but otherwise she looks much more like her father, Tony Curtis, than her mother, Janet Leigh, which is unfortunate. Wanda and Otto (Kline) pretend to be brother and sister, though actually they are lovers, she an adventuress and he an ex-CIA man turned hitman, stupid but pretentious and given to reading ...