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Norma Rae: When Sally Fields dropped from "The Flying Nun" into Burt Reynolds lap, a teen angel was despoiled, but no one took much notice. Martin Ritt, however, kept an eye on Fields, and plucked her from the backseat of Burt's van, where she last displayed her talents--prone--in Smokey and the Bandits. In Norma Rae, Ritt allows Fields aging starlet cuteness to work for her. A sassy, kick-around mill worker, Norma Rae is a woman cashing in on the vestiges of squirrel-mouthed, cheerleader prettiness. The story is hokey, but it plays. Widowed by a beer...
...role. Her aging starlet cuteness suddenly works--like Field herself, Norma Rae is a woman cashing in on the remaining vestiges of a squirrel-mouthed, cheerleader prettiness. Martin Ritt must be congratulated--he alone saw ability in an actress whose talents were last displayed--prone--in the backseat of Burt Reynolds' van in the mindless Smokey and the Bandit...
Then, of course, there's disco, a natural extension of Tintti's love for jazz dancing and ballet. But dancing is one of the luxuries that has to take a backseat to off-ice jogging and exercising, activities she says American skaters don't do enough...
Second, unwind some Government regulations that devour capital. "For example, we have to develop domestic sources of energy, and some environmental rules will have to take a backseat -temporarily...
...film, I hopped into Rich McPerson's banged-up '69 Chevy and downed two beers as we headed for I-95. Somewhere in the vicinity of Foxboro, I dozed off in the backseat. Nothing seemed even faintly like a prison anymore...