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What distinguishes Puberty Blues from other films about teenage escapades and painful experiences during rebellious adolescence is its candid outlook at a tightly defined peer subculture. The heroines perceptions are warped by their fascination with being accepted, and their desires for freedom are quelled not by authority figures like parents but by their own burgeoning awareness of their own needs--which do not necessarily include belonging to the cool surfer clique: We identify with Debbie and Sue because their struggles with independence are fresh and vivid, and at times terribly frustrating. Beresford doesn't condemn these characters. Rather he reaffirms...
...attributed it to the temperament he had inherited from his Greek immigrant parents, whose surname was originally Petropoulos. Said the friend: "Everything Peterson said came from the heart. The key to the man is his Greek origin. No Anglo-Saxon could ever have made such an emotional and candid statement...
...served with distinction as a British commando officer in World War II, returned to star in more than 60 films, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Guns of Navarone and Separate Tables, in which he gave a 1958 Oscar-winning portrayal of a pathetic military impostor. His candid, bestselling memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses) abound with lightly told anecdotes of Errol Flynn's drunken revels and Greta Garbo's nude swims. Niven once described Hollywood as a "hotbed of false values. . . but it was fascinating, and if you were...
...affair immediately put new pressure on a few key Reagan advisers. Stockman's candid observations about the Administration's juggling of budget statistics, quoted in the Atlantic in December 1981, had nearly cost him his job. Now he not only admitted talking to Barrett about the "pilfered" Carter debate book but conceded that he boasted on the very day of the debate about having used it. In a story buried on page 15 of the Elkhart, Ind., Truth newspaper, Stockman, then a Congressman from Michigan, was reported to have told a luncheon audience in Cassopolis, Mich., just what...
Barrett is equally candid about Reagan, whom he admires and expects to run again. As the book's title implies, Barrett sees Reagan as intuitive, at times impulsive. He discerns shortcomings even in the man's virtues: the President's belief in personal charity obstructs his understanding of the need for Government-run social justice programs; his boundless optimism can make him unable to hear, let alone accept, bad news on budget deficits. Though Barrett insists that Reagan is complex, the book portrays a man whose views are based largely on personal experience and whose approach...