Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what makes the film work, at least at the pop-fairy-tale level, is the reality principle. The plot is improbable: the girl is left blind by injuries sustained in a bad fall, then begins a long, painful but ultimately successful struggle to regain her sight and skills. Yet the film is kept firmly grounded in plausible, recognizable territory by the realistic detailing in Donald Wrye's direction, the authentic tone of the dialogue and the straightforward work of an excellent cast. Tom Skerritt as the skater's father, reluctant to let her go, and her first coach...
Cher. Just Cher. No Bono, no Allman at the end. That is the way in which one-half of one of Hollywood's most successful husband and wife teams has legalized her name after two bad marriages. And that is the way she will be billed in a March 7 NBC special, Cher ... and Other Fantasies. The concept is weak, but her 31 costumes and 22 wigs are dizzying. She appears as a slithery snakess and in a bare-belly ensemble which makes Cher resemble Ms. Tutankhamun. But perhaps the best is one in which she lounges like...
...Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff
Cornelia Ravenal's Out of the Reach of Children attempts to draw us back to those last wonderful days when we were lords of creation, when we were high school seniors, and then, more ambitiously, tries to prepare us for the big bad world of shattered high school dreams. Its occasionally inspired script, the generally excellent performances and the cast's awesome energy level paper over the flaws that occasionally obscure Ravenal's views of times past and future...
Clifton, however, believes the national economy may go through two or three cycles of good and bad times during a five-year drive. "I don't think the drive leadership will set their sights on national economic conditions--only a major national or international crisis could delay it," he says...