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Long after midnight, New Year's Eve: a moment that 'The Fabulous Baker Boys,' the slow, teasing, rapturously moody romance written and directed by Steve Kloves, has been waiting for. Every waiter and busboy and reveler has left the hotel nightclub, but the balloons and the confetti remain. On each empty table, a little lamp casts a deep, warm glow. And on the stage, at the piano, the beautiful singer and the handsome, world-weary pianist are still reeling from the version of 'Makin' Whoopee' they performed earlier in the evening. Alone at last, with the time finally right, they're ready to add a new verse.This is the sort of thing that 'The Fabulous Baker Boys,' which opens today at the Coronet and other theaters, does very well. It's a film specializing in smoky, down-at-the-heels glamour, and in the kind of smart, slangy dialogue that sounds right without necessarily having much to say. That its characters are essentially familiar does nothing to make them less dazzlingly attractive.
Kloves, a first-time director who only occasionally feels like one, is good with ambiance and even better with actors. The best thing he has done with this film's three stars is to have chosen them in the first place.Jeff and Beau Bridges appear as Jack and Frank Baker, a two-piano lounge act proud of never having held a day job. Their stage wardrobe is awful, their repertory even worse ('Little Green Apples,' 'Feelings,' 'The Girl From Ipanema'), and their morale at rock bottom. Frank, the older brother, is the booster in the family; it's he who tries to look on the bright side after a club owner offers to pay off the Bakers' contract if they will agree not to play.
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Jack isn't buying any of Frank's nervous optimism. He hates the act, and he hates himself too.Versatile as he is, Jeff Bridges hasn't played a character like Ja.