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WARGAMES Directed by John Badham...
BLUE THUNDER Directed by John Badham...
...hopes that by now John Badham is cooling his jets in some pleasant place where the dress code calls for swimsuits instead of straitjackets. For the director has obviously suffered a close encounter with paranoia in the past year or so. First of all, visions of the military-industrial complex seem to have caused a humongous helicopter to hover over his head. Loaded to the rotor blades with heavy artillery and the latest in supersnooping devices, the whirling bird is intended to attack such segments of the U.S. civilian population as happen to get unruly-though in these placid times...
Meantime, behind Badham's back, as it were, the same mighty power complex has created a monstrous computer. Its keepers have programmed it so that it can replace the humans who are supposed to press the buttons that start World War III. Poor WOPR (for that is its name) is an innocent. It thinks the war games it knows how to play are no different from chess and other harmless entertainments at which it is adept; it cannot distinguish between pawns and people...
...still subscribes to Variety, of course, but for Deborah Raffin, 29, the hottest flash on her career these days comes from China. It seems that a few years ago her Nightmare in Badham County-one of those young-girls-from-the-city-up-against-a-violent-small-town TV dramas-was released in Chinese movie theaters and became a monster hit, with more than 2.5 million seeing it in Shanghai alone. So when her 1980 movie, Touched by Love, is released in China next month, she will fly over for the first movie promotion tour ever by a Western actress...