Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About two years ago a movie version of Pennies from Heaven was released, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. It sank like a stone at the box office, but it succeeded where this Shrew failed. In Pennies, the brilliant images of the 30$ musicals are shown as the only release of sordid Depression reality. In Taming, the sordid realities of the burlesque theater are stretched to-carry an anachronistic theme of female subjugation. Pennies, for all of its jarring idiosyncacies, was a thoughtful reinterpretation of the American myth of the big musicals; Taming is equally thoughtful, but the theme...
...that included the power not only for the scoreboard but also for the headphones that link both teams' coaches on the sidelines to their counterparts in the press box...
Roberto C. Goizueta, 52, board chairman of Coca-Cola, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, on his lack of box-office acumen: "When I came out of [Columbia's] Ghostbusters, I thought, 'Gee, we're going to lose our shirts...
...seconds of blackness, and three funny bits. Artfully done, with offhand references to directors ranging from Byron Haskin to Yasujiro Ozu, Stranger Than Paradise has the odd odor of something left too long behind Aunt Bela's chintz couch. Yet it has been extravagantly praised and is a box-office success in its Manhattan debut. Rarely has a movie so fetid been so feted...
...happens, Mickey (Barbara Williams) and Ray (John Getz) are experiencing marital blues and the stolen box contains journals of Mickey's unfulfilled fantasies. Worse still, the urban intruder is a studly thief named Scotty (Steven Bauer) who has expensive taste and big aspirations; he's not content to simply rob their home, he wants to steal Mickey too. Scotty reads her journals, falls in love with her picture and then moves in for the kill...