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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only autumn, and with the perennial spate of "serious" autumnal films comes the customary barrage of gushing reviews and banner-size ad copy. "Oscar quality." "A shoo-in for Best Picture." "Academy Award material." And Rex Reed can't be blamed for all of these, though he has managed to skriek more than his fair share of superlatives...
...theater full of strangers into a community: confidant to Dan, cheerleader to Beth, lynch mob for Alex. And they leave the movie with golden word of mouth. "I saw a lot of couples looking at each other sideways as they walked out," says Jim Stegall, 35, a Miami ad salesman. "The meaning of that look was obvious: Don't even think about having an affair." Director Lyne says, "I've had men ring me up and say, 'Thanks a million, buddy, you've ruined it for us.' " A Manhattan psychoanalyst told Co-Producer Lansing, "I know the picture...
...movie's makers angrily deny that Fatal Attraction is antifeminist, but they must be smiling behind their public choler. All the controversy in newspapers and magazines is like a free front-page ad. Every argument at a cocktail party or around an office coffee machine keeps this monster movie alive. Even career women who take the film as libel have to see it, if only to know the enemy up close. Maybe Hitchcock was right when, to smooth the feathers of one of his stars, he cooed, "It's only a movie, Ingrid." Maybe Fatal Attraction is just a nine...
...thin film" which blanketed the Yard last night, although several students reported seeing drifts as high as an inch in some areas. As the annual Yard snowfight got underway, many freshmen were guilty of "conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student," flinging snow at friends and enemies alike. The Ad Board. has not yet taken any disiplinary action...
Most of the actors do a good job of playing stuffy, pathetic snobs. Barton is the best of these, and has the most consistent accent. Salloway is good as a faded remnant of British Raj, but the performance I saw, he destroyed the genteel atmosphere with an ad-libbed "Oh shit!" Alexander and Shapiro are a bit bland, though they are probably supposed to be. Constantine Contes, as Jack's manservant, bears the indignities and follies of his employer with wonderful heavenward eye-rolls...