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...frat boy, had become one of the top-grossing movie comedies of all time. It is impossible not to care a little about the man who could make such an observation, just as it is difficult not to be fond of someone who, in the middle of a furious brawl with his brother, could observe, "This is just like East of Eden." But Wired, so full of details, is so short on insight that Belushi never becomes any larger or more understandable than a gifted guy who pigged out on success. That might have satisfied Sergeant Joe Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Overdosing on Bad Dreams | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...things in this world stir Texans more than a brawl, whether between high school football teams, gamecocks, refinery workers or Democrats. Texas Democrats have more warring factions-from Big Oil to Boll Weevil to Prairie Populist-than just about any other political party west of Italy's Christian Democrats. Lone Star politicians relish their infighting so much that when State Representative Ben ("Jumbo") Atwell was asked a few years back if he was thinking of leaving the legislature, he responded, "What? And give up show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ogling the Ayes of Texas | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...film's very sense of artistic symmetry that prevents it from truly involving the audience. While the scenes in the bomb shelter and the brawl in the mens' room offer welcome relief from the repetitious scenes of man meets women there are simply not enough deviations from the dance floor. And even with particularly strong performances by Monica Scattini and Etienne Guichard, there is simply not enough material to justify two hours of flitrations and rebuffs. By the time we reach the 1950s and the invasion of the "doo-wop" thugs in leather jackets, the end is long overdue...

Author: By David H. P. pick, | Title: Quiet on the Set | 4/20/1984 | See Source »

...getting to be a brawl rather than a festival," Schuyler said...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Flying Objects at Raft Race Outlawed | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...Enter Ren (Kevin Bacon), a city boy with radical ideas about popular music: he likes it. Will Ren win over the Rev.'s wil lowy daughter (Lori Singer)? Will Ren and his pal Willard (Christopher Penn) beat up the town's five toughest punks in a roadside brawl? Will he be able to put the show on right here? You get plenty of time for your three guesses: 106 minutes, discouragingly few of which surrender themselves to the rough ecstasy of rock 'n' roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revel Without a Cause | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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