Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remains a hopelessly restless, love-hungry kid. Antoine will badger, beg and lie to win a woman's affection, only to discover over and over that his hunger is not satiated by each new conquest. As a pal tells him this time, "All you care about is boy meets girl; from there, it's all downhill...
Some baseball pitchers are bad boys of winter: they come in low and inside with their typewriters and tell tales out of the clubhouse. Jim Bouton perfected the pitch with Ball Four, and as a sequel ex-Yankee Sparky Lyle this season spikes up dirt about the world champs in The Bronx Zoo. Then there's Philadelphia Phillies Reliefer Tug McGraw, 34. When his arm is in the whirlpool, McGraw's mind is busy thinking up baseball fairy tales for children. He is working on one about a boy from the Bowery and his dog who both make...
...Cousin, Cousine in its playful attitude toward sexual improprieties, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs fails to develop its characters much behond their pretty faces. Solange, the heroine, has three lovers: two are buffoons, her husband and a stranger he recruited to cheer her up, and one, a thirteen-year-old boy, is sensitive to her need for friendship. The plot is inconsistent, the jokes are obvious, and the direction is heavy-handed. You might find this film a clever and coy French farce--if you're drunk...
...known that the Prophet was born about A.D. 570 to a member of the respected Meccan clan of Hashim. His father died shortly before Muhammad was born, and his mother when the boy was only six. Two years later, his doting grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman...
John Herzfeld's screenplay concerns Drew Rothman (Michael Ontkean of Slap Shot), a Jewish delivery boy in Hoboken, N.J., and Rosemarie Lemon (Amy Irving of The Fury), a deaf teacher who wins the hero's heart. Drew wants to be a singer, Rosemarie wants to be a dancer, and they both want to be in love. There are obstacles along the path to a happy ending. Rosemarie's stern mom (Viveca Lindfors) feels that deaf people should stick to their own kind. Drew must act as keeper for both his gambling dad (Alex Rocco...