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...week, one speaker after another recited a Whitmanesque litany of races and classes and minorities and interests and occupations-or unemployments. Some speakers, in fact, made the nation sound like an immense ingathering of victims-terrorized senior citizens, forsaken minorities, Dickensian children-warmed by the party's Frank Capra version of America: Say, it's a wonderful life...
After taking a heavy course in abnormal psychology or early human development, you might consider two evenings a week of movie greats, in Visual and Environmental Studies S-195, "Film Masterpieces." The classics analyzed include works by Bergman, Fellini, Hitchcock, Ford, and Capra. But don't be misled--you won't get by without a price. In this case, the "screening...
Kingston Falls, U.S.A., the setting for Gremlins, is itself a dreamscape confected from congenial old slices of apple-pie Americana. Norman Rockwell might have painted the town's Main Street and the faces of the folks who stroll down it on this peaceful Christmas Eve. Frank Capra, Hollywood's master of sweet-and-sour sentimentality, could smile at the plight of Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges...
...Henry Aaron, Darrell Evans, and Dave Johnson all hit 40 homers in 1973. Ralph Garr won the 1974 batting title by hitting .353, and Buzz Capra was the ERA champ in 1974 with a neat 2.210 mark...
...Cleary, on whose book the movie is based, evidently enjoyed It Happened One Night, but director Hutton is not Frank Capra any more than Selleck and Armstrong are Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert 'Tom "Magnum P.I." Sellect, sex symbol for the '80s, performs convincingly as O'Malley. conveying more emotion than one might think possible with his macho, mustachioed, chiselled face. Armstrong does not fare quite so well, occasionally dredging up memories of high-school drama productions...