Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough to make John Cougar Mellancamp cry "Oh Boy." If he sees the new Ford ad, he might let out "Oh Buick." Although "It's So Easy (To Buy Tercel)," it is not easy to listen to these rock and roll classics remade and then overplayed. Roll Over Buddy Holly...
...write it down. "They can skate." Boy, it's a good thing, because otherwise, they might be forced to tap dance or do ballet...
...experience. Performances--either at the ART or in student projects at the Institute--make up the other half. Director David Wheeler cast four Institute students in the production of Gillette, which opened last week. Many other students are understudies in the Hauptman study of the good ole' boy. And Cabaret Sauvignon is entirely a student production...
...Empire of the Sun, the boy is James Graham, eleven-year-old son of an English merchant in Shanghai at the first shell burst of World War II in the Pacific. Behind the camera is Jim's spiritual cousin, Steven Spielberg, 39. Spielberg's trials of the past couple of years have been nowhere so cataclysmic as those that befell Jim, his family and millions of other refugees under the imperial Japanese boot. Still, they must have injected an unwelcome dose of maturity into the man with a lock on childhood. The films produced recently under his aegis have fizzled...
...even in this Spielberg war, wisdom brings bitter lessons. It teaches Jim that he may -- must -- filch food from the dying and take shoes from the dead. When P-51s zoom above him, the plane-crazy boy crash-dives into delirium; his dreams have singed him by flying too close, poisoned him with their oil and cordite. Alone with an ailing woman (Miranda Richardson), who stokes his first erotic fantasies, Jim looks up and sees the atomic blast over Hiroshima as a blazing crystal vision. Even at the end, when a plane drops bundles of Spam and Luckies like...