Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magnusons reside in the town of New London, N.H., in a four-bedroom house for which they paid $59,000 last autumn. The taxes are under $800. Muses Magnuson: "Considering that New Hampshire has no sales tax or state income tax, I guess that's not too bad...
Bodey hides the paper to spare Dorothea, but she cannot, of course, hide it from the audience- thereby spiking any hope of dramatic surprise. The second act brings in the bad-news girl, Dorothea's fellow teacher Helena. Helena (Charlotte Moore) is an antiseptic snob with faintly lesbian leanings who wants Dorothea to abandon her tacky flat and move in with her. Formerly tempted, Dorothea now refuses. The poignance of the situation is that these are women alone, who at best are merely pooling their losses...
...hero, Scottie Templeton (Jack Lemmon), is a charming, but irresponsible public relations man with a bad case of leukemia. Scottie's one gift has been his ability to make people happy, and in his last days he tries to reconcile with the one person he has made miserable, his son, Jud (Robert Picardo), whom he abandoned in the divorce settlement. He amuses Jud with jokes and funny costumes, finds him a girl (Catherine Hicks), and smothers him with affection. But Jud, a 20-year-old fogy, refuses to shake the glad hand. "Mom said you once told Sonja Henie...
First the good news for American League pitchers: Jim Rice does not try to hit home runs. Now for the bad news: he hits home runs anyway, often enough so far to titillate the statistics keepers. The Boston Red Sox's splendid young designated hitter and leftfielder has hit 18 home runs through the end of May and is ahead of both Babe Ruth's and Roger Maris' early-season pace. It was enough to earn him the American League's Player of the Month award. To add consistency to insult, Rice's .343 batting average would satisfy Pete Rose...
...bad Hyams did not push himself harder, for Capricorn One could be better. If the film had a few fewer plot holes, a bit more narrative depth and far less signposting dialogue, it might even have been a space-age Manchurian Candidate. A classier cast would also have helped. Gould, Holbrook and Waterston are all in fine, easygoing form, but Brolin and Simpson are useless heroes: they are not big enough stars or good enough actors to make us care about their fates...