{"id":212,"date":"2009-09-25T03:29:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T03:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/?page_id=212"},"modified":"2016-09-23T21:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T21:23:06","slug":"sunday-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/reviews-2\/solitaire-for-2-2\/sunday-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY TELEGRAPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, February 12, 1995<\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Arts: &#8216;Solitaire for 2&#8217;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In Solitaire for 2 (15), Amanda Pays plays an archaeologist with ESP who goes around hitting men because they&#8217;re thinking dirty thoughts about her. Mark Frankel plays a flash geezer who is an expert in body language. Boy meets girl, boy chases girl, girl hits boy, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Sinyor, of Leon the Pig Farmer fame, wrote, co-produced and directed. It&#8217;s a brave attempt, but romantic comedy is the hardest of all genres to pull off (which is why Four Weddings and a Funeral was such a miracle) and this doesn&#8217;t quite make it. The pace is more sloppy than snappy, the characters are unconvincing, and the London locations don&#8217;t fit together. And I really don&#8217;t think Hampstead Heath at night, is the place for a romantic stroll, do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":89,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-212","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212\/revisions\/2046"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}