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...gave me more than enough reasons to get out of town and join the Marines." His lone consolations were a doting grandmother -- "a great gal, a storyteller, a sanctuary" -- and the movies. "When I'd walk out of the theater, I knew I was really Errol Flynn or James Cagney. And kids from disturbed environments visualize what they feel is the perfect life. Through acting they can realize their fantasies, recover their lost dreams...
Robert Towne's plot recalls the old James Cagney melodramas in which righteous Pat O'Brien fought for his soul and rotten Humphrey Bogart tried to perforate his body. But the moral is utterly today: it's about going straight without paying the price. As handsome and slack muscled as a surfer past his prime, the movie renounces ambiguity for confusion. In the end, like an old set of tires or a frayed friendship, Tequila Sunrise just wears...
...women (he loves American women but has difficulty living under the same roof with one) and gripes about the toils of fund raising. He also talks -- without the least defensiveness -- about one of his several goals: to be a giant-screen pop entertainer. Not for nothing did he study Cagney...
...perfect freak-out counselor for an evening of summer camp? Not quite. Sure, he's got loads more personality than Jason, the goalie-masked monster of the seven Friday the 13th bloodfests. As Englund describes Freddy, "He has a bantam- cock swagger, an arrogant sexual thrust, like Jimmy Cagney." The ex- janitor can be pathetic too: "I picture him as a wiry, scrawny Lee Oswald with a push broom, peeking into girls' lockers when no one's looking." But the Nightmare films are more than a Freddy phenomenon. With sharp humor, a dash of B-movie style and the eerie...
Meanwhile, cable networks are bidding aggressively against their broadcast rivals for programming. Syndicated reruns of such current network hits as Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey and Murder, She Wrote have been sold to cable rather than broadcast stations, as would have been the case five or ten years ago. Cable has also been on the offensive in the sports arena. ESPN last year brought National Football League games to cable for the first time, buying a package of 39 contests over three years. ESPN's eight regular-season NFL telecasts last fall garnered the all-sports network its highest ratings ever...