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SHOOT THE MOON Directed by Alan Parker; Screenplay by Bo Goldman...
...always been an unwritten code of conduct that any time someone troubles a President, he or she should submit a resignation quickly and quietly. The issue is not really whether the individual has been accused falsely or been treated fairly. Preventing damage to the President transcends all considerations. Bo Callaway, former Secretary of the Army and Gerald Ford's campaign manager, understood the code. Falsely accused of conflict of interest over a Colorado ski resort development, Callaway resigned-and then cleared himself of the charges...
There's something for health nuts and Harvard nuts, Tolkien nuts and television nuts. You can get a big glossy of Bo Derek in her birthday suit, which has nothing else aside from thin lines etched against her flesh and numerals for each month. If it's July, this must be Bo...
...back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems out of tune and time. She plays Evelyn Nesbit as the daffily dumb prototype for every bombshell from Marilyn to Bo-cheeks puffed, eyes glazed, tripping through life in a sweet stupor. She weighs the film down before Rollins & Co. have the chance to make it soar...
Whatever the intent, the result is an aimless bust, unencumbered by a visual or structural scheme. It wanders through a series of tony boîtes, boutiques and hotel lobbies in the vagrant hope of witnessing a privileged moment. Those are likely to occur only when Hepburn is onscreen. At 52, the eternal gamine has become a figure of icy chic; the lilt in her voice now has the gravity of years; she has barely a line to speak in the film's first hour, and too many silly words in the second. But she is still a radiant...