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...portrayal lacks all conviction. Kay's co-workers come off as little more than cardboard characters in vintage clothing. And the strong feeling of unity that energized the home front--a force that inspired thousands of people to donate clothing and kids to give their dimes to help American soldiers--is not captured in the film. When the film shows people donating pots and pans in a neighborhood collection drive the donors look about as enthusiastic as the audience itself...
...Kaufman Astoria studio, where a renovated building with the largest sound stage outside Hollywood was named in her honor. "I feel sensational and really a little sentimental," said Colbert, who looked both. Indeed, it was hard to say which of her selves was lovelier as she delightedly encountered a cardboard cutout from her film Cleopatra, which she made at 29. Now 78, she is still working. This week she starts rehearsals in London with Rex Harrison, 76, for a West End revival of the 1923 comedy Aren...
...necessary degree of depth they so desperately lack. It is precisely because Hopper is such a loyal patriot and sensitive lover that the film so frequently seems maudlin, and precisely because the preps wear checkered sweaters while jeering at the working class boys that the characters seem like cardboard replicas from an I.,I., Bean catalogue...
...sort of parody would work much better or an outrageous level--as in Airplane, where things are so stupid, you have to laugh at them. Android instead comes across as an overblown premiere of a sci-fi television show, whipped up just in time for fall previews, with silly cardboard sets, silly stock characters, and lots of pointless footage...
...plan of attack well rehearsed and thorough. Leaving a fishing cabin rented under a false name, the group of eight split into three teams; two of them rode in vans loaded with unmarked cardboard cartons while the third left in a 17-ft. outboard motorboat. The van teams entered the huge U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., through different gates and joined forces at the PX parking lot. They stopped briefly at Second Division headquarters, then drove to an on-base junior high school, where hundreds of unsuspecting students were attending classes. The boat team, meanwhile, sneaked undetected onto...