Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot is simple young, fabulously wealthy, wildly extravagant and supposedly beautiful Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) stops doing the Charleston on Istanbul tabletops long enough to learn that she has 12 days to lind her long lost father. Should she fail to exhibit him in a British court in that time he will be declared dead, and the company fortune will devolve upon daddy's evil partner Bentik (Robert Morlev) The prospect propels her into a harrowing two-week adventure in which hundreds of extras die and she herself narrowly escapes a dozen terrible ends. Along for the ride is Patrick...
...Cleary, on whose book the movie is based, evidently enjoyed It Happened One Night, but director Hutton is not Frank Capra any more than Selleck and Armstrong are Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert 'Tom "Magnum P.I." Sellect, sex symbol for the '80s, performs convincingly as O'Malley. conveying more emotion than one might think possible with his macho, mustachioed, chiselled face. Armstrong does not fare quite so well, occasionally dredging up memories of high-school drama productions...
...House package becomes law, the Social Security system will be buoyed by revenue increases and spending cuts totaling $165.3 billion from 1983 to 1989. The legislation now moves for approval to the Senate, where Colorado Republican William Armstrong has promised stiff opposition to the proposed tax hikes and levies on benefits...
...this unromantic age of professional collegians, it is kind of funny and sort of sweet that people still believe in Jack Armstrong, All-American, or at least want to believe. Georgia Football Hero Herschel Walker has been Frank Merriwell himself. Walker gained more yards (5,259) than any other runner ever has in three seasons, and more than everyone but Heisman Trophy Winners Tony Dorsett (Pittsburgh, '76) and Charles White (U.S.C., '79) has in four. When the Heisman went to Walker this winter, some considered it two years overdue. He also ran track and dreamed of the Olympics...
Though intended as parody, a "piss-take" the Aussies would call it, of the old-fashioned movie musical. Starstruck is more than cotton candy. The difference lies in Armstrong's deadly satiric aim and her choice of targets. In attempting to make fun of the awkward staginess of giant musical production numbers, she produces routines which transcend that awkwardness, so that one can really imagine Julius and company breaking into song sporadically. Jo Kennedy and Ross O'Donovan play their characters not as stereotypical angry young punks, but as lonely eccentrics, breathing life into Jackie and Angus...