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REAGANOMICS, the trouble in Poland, cutbacks in student aid, these coming due, a virus in Quincy House, Harvard's investment policies, John Belushi's death--the major topics of discussion around Harvard of late have been mostly depressing With this pervading atmosphere of bad news, how pleasant it is to note that one bright light has flooded the Harvard community, providing a release from the pressures of college life, and for four weeks now only good news...
...with the cauterizing fury of a Bunuel satire. A ham-fisted director like John G. Avildsen (Rocky) need not have applied. Nor were Bill Conti's services required: his score sounds like a Spike Jones symphony of klaxons, sassy trombones, Bronx-cheer kazoos and the Hallelujah Chorus. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd maneuver through this minefield on literal flat feet, turning the Blues Brothers into the Two Stooges. Go back to Saturday Night Live, guys. The show could use you. And right now, you need...
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (NBC). A well-turned hour of live, zoned-out comedy, which featured everything from Belushi to Bartok and raised the question, "Did dinosaurs build Stonehenge...
...Ragtime, an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's panoramic vision of turn-of-the-century America; Reds, Warren Beatty's life of Revolutionary John Reed; Absence of Malice, a serious examination of journalistic ethics; and Whose Life Is It Anyway?, which is about euthanasia. Even the new John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd feature is far from Animal House; it is an adaptation of Thomas Berger's Neighbors, a farcically structured but coruscating novel about friendship. As if to stress the point, such legendary figures as James Cagney and Fred Astaire (see boxes) will be back on-screen before...
...buddy Warren Beatty, that has Jack looking like Bozo with a paper moustache, and lacks both slap and situation. Don't see The Missouri Breaks, done with next-door neighbor Marlon Brando, one of the most heralded flops to gallop across the silver screen. Nor Going South, with John Belushi, which features numerous shots of our hero's derriere, proving that Nicholson cannot direct Nicholson