Word: archvillain
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...twelve days' work as the father who sends Superbaby to Earth from the doomed planet Krypton, Marlon Brando has received $2¼ million. A similar sum is going to Gene Hackman, who plays Lothar, the archvillain, for three months' work. To make sure that Superman will stay around for sequels, Reeve, who was plucked from the obscurity of a TV soap opera for the role, is getting $250,000. But then, of course, there is more of Reeve than there was when he was signed. In London, where the interiors are being shot, he trained on weights with...
...full plot. The first has Holmes strung out on cocaine - his dosage is the pun in the title - and railing crazily against his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Laurence Olivier). Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) tricks his friend into following Moriarty's trail to Vienna. There they find not the archvillain, but the only man who can possibly save Holmes: Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). All this uses up time that might have been better spent drumming up suspense or demonstrating some elementary deduction. When Holmes finally beats his habit and flies off on a new adventure, the entire case is beyond hope...
...year's most cunning entertainment, a thriller full of spills and shootings, double-dealings and triple betrayals. It is lavishly mounted and loaded with flash. The movie also offers Dustin Hoffman, giving one of his best performances, up against Laurence Olivier, who is in fine form playing an archvillain. Watching Marathon Man is a little like getting crowned by a chain-mail fist...
...felt the course was effective. At Quincy Junior College, near the Adams family homestead, in Quincy, Mass., Instructor Robert Collins applauded WNET, New York, for its production. Says he: "What they've developed is an appreciation for the period. This cuts across age lines. TV has been an archvillain in terms of locking us into a continuous 'now.' There's a real hunger in this country for a collective past, a cherishable identity...
...superagent (Tamara Dobson) who is black, tough, gorgeous and invincible-not necessarily in that order. Cleopatra, who is referred to as "wonder woman," is particularly concerned with quashing dope traffic in the ghetto, and the movie manages to be effective anti-junk propaganda without getting sanctimonious about it. The archvillain is a bulbous bull-dyke, a queen of the pushers called Mommy (Shelley Winters), who turns herself out in a lot of black and henna and rains down awful retribution on recalcitrant underlings. Cleopatra and Mommy spend most of the picture circling each other, but when they finally get together...