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...Matthew Broderick is biking to stardom
There are several reasons for Matthew Broderick to celebrate 1983. He won praise for his first movie, Neil Simon's Max Dugan Returns. He received absolute raves, as well as a Tony nomination, for playing the adolescent Simon in the dramatist's autobiographical hit, Brighton Beach Memoirs. "To Matthew," says a note from Simon on the actor's dressing-room wall. "After watching me on the stage, I never knew I was so cute and so talented." Critics are already applauding his portrayal of the computer genius who nearly starts World War III in War-Games, which...
...that, of course, is very nice and much appreciated by Broderick, who turned 21 in March. He started thinking about being an actor when he was two, and until quite recently no one would hire him for anything. But what really puts fire into his basset-hound brown eyes is not the chance for big money or even the enthusiastic applause he receives every night in Brighton Beach Memoirs. It is a bike he parks backstage at the Alvin Theater...
...cost $700, has 15 speeds, with wires in odd places, and it floats on balloon tires that would make an ascent up Everest seem like a jaunt through Central Park. "You can go off the curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz, who plays my mother in the play, if I should buy it, and she said...
...Saturday Night Fever suggest, Badham can be more than a high-tech hardware merchant. The first portions of WarGames are nearly irresistible. The reason that the mighty WOPR comes across as funny is that David, a bright high school lad (played by a very savvy young actor, Matthew Broderick, 21), accidentally makes contact with it while fooling around with his home computer. Boy and machine get to be friends, since they are both lonely and misunderstood. David is shy and sweet with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) but is wary of his parents and is a troublemaker in school. In short...