Word: buckarooing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does more than curl men's toes. In her first film, Diner (1982), she played the young married whose husband rags her because she can't catalog his precious 45s. In Tender Mercies she was Robert Duvall's teen daughter. She righteously battled Dr. Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and taught her sweet niece how to dance in Desert Bloom. Just now she is bookending her role in Sea with a turn as the triple-crossing ultrabitch in Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome. Tough? This babe can blast a robbery victim without blinking. And when her muscular creep...
Woodward's best seller, though it traced Belushi's last days with a doggedness that would have done the Evangelists proud, was a turgid read that had little feeling for its subject and found no broad meaning in it. At least adapter Earl Mac Rauch (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai) knows that the only way to pin Belushi and Hollywood is to wax satiric and surrealistic. When the dead Belushi prowls his old haunts in a morgue sheet that looks like a toga out of the Animal House closet, the film almost has style to match its guts. So does...
...Somerville Theatre has long been favored by community residents seeking an alternative to first-run movie houses. Most nights, the cinema shows an eclectic assortment of double features, ranging from "Last Tango in Paris" and "Betty Blue" to "Buckaroo Banzai...
...addition to fast action, a playfully cynical humor reminiscent of Buckaroo Banzai runs throughout the film. The storyline is periodically punctuated by a television news show--its slogan is, "Give us three minutes and we'll give you the world."--which charts Robocop's successes. The show is filled with such news items as the misfiring of a "Star Wars" defense system, killing three expresidents living in California. There is also a recurring commercial advertising a family board game called "Nuke 'em." And the scenes depicting the building and activation of Robocop combine humor with a biting commentary on modern...
...heroes are welcome. To his fans, Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr., a hardened 36-year-old, embodies bull- headed heroism. As a boy, Dallas read Zane Grey, trapped animals on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and harbored a dream to head West. In 1968 he did, and started as a buckaroo on a ranch in Oregon. Acquaintances called him gentle, quiet, a loner. Dallas earned a reputation as a hard worker and a fellow who'd stare you straight in the eye. "Buckarooing," he once explained in charming simplicity, "is just a man doing his job, working with livestock on horseback, doing...