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...manservant. And the 12-year-old in all of us giggles at serial stunts and big battles from which the heroes emerge safely. The viewer's grin on leaving is partly habit--you're supposed to like movies like this. If you absolutely loved Raiders of the Lost Ark, see High Road to China. On second thought, see Raiders again. Seth A. Tucker
...Americas in A.D. 2000, as Burgess plays with a well-known science fiction theme. An iron-heavy planet, code-named Lynx, threatens to vaporize the earth in this third and most complete tale. Valentine Brodie, a jittery, lustful, heavy-drinking young "future fiction" writer, is to accompany a space ark populated by an elite, computer-selected group of scientists and thinkers. They have been chosen to carry civilization to the next world. Brodie, like Freud, is fond of cigars, panatellas called Solzhenitsyns. He is also fond of a fat, fast-talking actor named Willett. At a last dance high above...
...tempted to believe that the four conservative Southerners--Sen. Fritz Hollings (D.S.C), former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, probably Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), and perhaps former National Party Chairman Robert Straus of Texas--have entered the fray partly out of the much heralded "turn to the right" the country experienced in 1980. Indeed, early press reports indicated that Sen. Hollings based the rationale for his campaign in part on those halcyonyon pre recession days of 1981, when Time referred to Reagan as a domestically able President," and a Democratic candidacy as a conservative alternative to Ronald Reagan seemed credible...
...giant stepped pyramid rises eerily out of the lush rice fields of central Java, like some forbidden city in a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Bristling with statuary and turrets, the imposing edifice sits in stony silence in the gathering light of dawn. But this is not a Hollywood fantasy. It is Indonesia's Borobudur, the world's largest and probably most mysterious Buddhist monument, which will be rededicated this week as a national shrine and tourist attraction after being rescued from decades of neglect...
Steven Spielberg, the father of E.T. and creator of numerous other blockbuster movies, including Jews and Raiders of the Lost Ark., accepted the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) 16th man of the Year award last night...