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...Eyes of Laura Mars appears to have everything--beautiful Faye Dunaway as the trendy Beautiful People photographer, a dash of the occult, fear, hysteria, mystery and violence. Except to accommodate these trends, this movie's plot is improbable at best and absurd at worst. Dunaway plays a fashion photographer whose photos are in because they include images of violence and death. The twist comes when the people Dunaway "shoots" die violent deaths in about the same poses. Apparently, Dunaway has some kind of psychic link with the killer, and the race is on to see who will...
...meantime the Billy Martin situation has gotten completely out of hand. It moved from the strange to the pathetic to the totally absurd last weekend as the Yankees announced on Old-Timer's Day that Martin would once again manage the team in the 1980 season. It's almost too weird for comment. George Steinbrenner obviously doesn't want to play the heavy, and Martin, apparently in somewhat shaky physical and mental health, wants his job back. Bob Lemon must feel great, and the rest of the club (led of late by Thurman Munson, who has been consistently hot through...
Bravo Bakke [July 10]! When I fill out my college applications this fall. I firmly resolve not to fill in that absurd and archaic block marked Ethnic Group. Did I miss something in science class or do brains really come in two colors -black and white...
...reactionary" religion. There are no private telephones, no forms of public transportation, no postal service, no universities. A Scandinavian diplomat who last year visited Phnom Penh-today a ghost city of shuttered shops, abandoned offices and painted-over street signs-said on his return: "It was like an absurd film; it was a nightmare. It is difficult to believe it is true...
...action of the movie has the Heartland boys whipped off to Hollywood and exposed, poor things, to the temptation of Big Bucks. There is a splendidly absurd contract-signing orgy, involving some expensive and schizophrenic kidding of the rock world's overdose of money, and soon Frampton has forgotten all about Strawberry Fields (Sandy Farina), the sappily beautiful girl back home. "A difficult one-week rise from obscurity to stardom," as one of the film's captions puts it, follows...