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This is the latest model of what might be termed the Burt Reynolds Formula One Vehicle. The sometime bandit is a respectable NASCAR driver in Stroker Ace. That means that the skids and scrapes in which he defies death without losing his good-ole-boy aplomb take place on such premises as the Daytona 500 race track. He is also amiably mystified to find himself drawn to a woman (Loni Anderson) who is as tenacious in defense of her virginity as he is in pursuit of a championship. That, however, completes the list of the film's novelties...
...movie star now," says Landis. "And he's too smart not to realize how good he is." Paramount realizes too. Last week the studio signed Eddie to an exclusive five-picture deal with a $15 million guarantee. This puts him in the movies' major leagues next to Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood-"Now those guys are movie stars!" says Eddie, modest for a moment. And up there even with Richard Pryor...
Even by the standards of Hollywood, the Third World and the CIA (and they all apply), Burt Nelson has real problems. Burt, who narrates this stingingly funny picaresque, is in Morocco to write the script of an Arab-backed movie biography of Muhammad, a "couscous Western," as the director calls it. Along the way, Burt becomes entangled with the producer's secretary-mistress, a Palestinian terrorist, and is kidnaped by Moroccan radicals who rashly expect his employers to pay $1 million in ransom. Burt, however, not only knows his "onions on Islam," he is a part-time spook...
...Brattle Theatre is running two special movie series this summer. Playing through July is a "hunk" extravaganza with a different double feature every other night of favorite leading men such as Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Errol Flynn. In August, on a more serious note, will be an Ingmar Bergman series with the director's potpourri of films, including the Magic Flute and Persona. For a consistent series of famous golden oldies, the Brattle Theater will provide enjoyable film entertainment for the entire summer...
...Atlantic Alliance. As the alliance's leader, it was widely agreed, the U.S. must be more sensitive to the gusts of anxiety that shake Western Europe, and the Reagan Administration must moderate its language on East-West issues. At one point during the conference, Senator Tsongas told Richard Burt, "If you assume that the next battlefield is the European heart and mind, to coin an old Viet Nam expression, if that is where the fight is now, how does one rationalize the rhetoric which is giving the Soviets an advantage in that battle? What assurance can we give...