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Fifteen-year-old Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) switches schools and instantly alienates the bullies in his new class. They threaten to mangle him unless he forks over his lunch money. So Cliff finds a bodyguard, hulking Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) who, the rumor goes, has killed a kid, raped a teacher, and shot a cop. Cliff eventually wins over the silent, secretive Ricky, and the two score a rousing--and hilarious--final victory over the bullies who have tormented them since...
...characters in Ormsby's script are stereotypes, he has endowed each of them with unusual depth. Only Makepeace's Clifford is awkward at times. He must be the wimp and the hero at once, a difficult role for any actor, and a task just beyond Makepeace's grasp. But Baldwin and Matt Dillon, as big bully Melvin Moody, are superb in roles no less difficult. As for the adults, Martin Mull and John Houseman appear fleetingly, and Ruth Gordon sticks to her tried-and-true role as a sex-hungry...
...situation is familiar: a new boy in a tough school makes a couple of social blunders and finds himself the target of a bullying gang's wrath. But the method that undersized Clifford (Chris Makepeace) uses to solve his problem is novel. He persuades Linderman (Adam Baldwin), the biggest lad in his class, and one wrapped in a menacing silence, to act as his bodyguard. In the course of their nicely developed relationship, Clifford discovers that his new friend's silence is motivated by a dark but not dingy secret, which understanding can cure. By the time...
...Reese Schonfeld does not expect to scoop NBC, CBS and ABC regularly. "We'll just bring the news to you faster," he says. "We have time to play it and they don't." Though the revolving set in CNN's Atlanta studio was designed by Ron Baldwin, who has done sets for the nets, Turner's news will not be as slickly produced or as visually elaborate as the network equivalent. Says Watson, former Washington bureau chief for ABC: "We are not going to be afraid of talking heads...
...intellectuals debated the repercussions of the Cold War, the attention of the American public turned to the rumblings of the Civil Rights movement. Podhoretz, age 30, became editor of Commentary, and immediately focused its attention on social questions. Breaking Ranks reflects this stress: Podhoretz talks about James Baldwin's the Fire Next Time and his own My Negro Problem--and Ours, offering a fascinating discussion of the accusations and threats which accompanied the movement toward integration...