Word: barbarella
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...cover girl, fresh out of Vassar and mummified in heavy makeup. The early '60s saw her as Hollywood's all-American ingenue in Tall Story and Sunday in New York. A few years later, her then husband Roger Vadim retooled her into a European sex symbol as Barbarella. By the early '70s she was a scrawny, scraggly Hanoi Jane, the ardent activist who visited the Viet Cong, turned up at Black Panther rallies, and cheered on the Indians who occupied Alcatraz, earning contumely for herself and an Oscar for her performance in Klute...
Coming Home was the first non-documentary film to approach the war with any pretensions to seriousness and the results were pretty sad. With Bruce Dern as a fired-up army officer, Jane no-that's-not-me-in-the-love-scene-but-that-was-me-in-Barbarella Fonda as his wife and Jon Voight as a crippled vet, everyone is too damn earnest. The depth of the emotional struggles in the movie makes Ordinary People look like a model of complexity. And when Dern bares his buns for that catharsis/baptism, you want to vomit. Any ninth-grader could have...
...Your Eyes Only--Monday at 12, 3:55 and 7:50 p.m.; with Barbarella...
...prove themselves game professionals. Tomlin is a crackerjack comic actress, even when the confection is stale, and Parton has as fetching a way with a line of dialogue as she has with the curve of an angora sweater. Only Fonda succumbs: she plays her character like a cross between Barbarella and Barbie doll. But that is Higgins' way. He wants both to leer and to lecture. Nine to Five is a vile mess, but it may find its audience -the one desperate for movie comedy, the one that has made Airplane! and Private Benjamin two of the year...
Movie, Movie. Harvard Square, Friday at 1, 4:30, and 8:05 p.m. With Barbarella at 2:50, 6:20, and 9:55 p.m. California Suite. Harvard Square, Saturday at 3:25 and 7:40 p.m. With New York, New York...