Word: celluloidal
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...kinds of trouble. The Brinkley character--if you could call it that--is an obvious rip-off of the Suzanne Sommers' blonde in American Grafitti and has about as much personality as--well--a Sports Illustrated bathing suit spread. Brinkley--who is so sexy on paper--is embarrassing on celluloid, because, as simple as her part...
...well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local chugs in and Skip finds himself rooming with Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy), a bright it somewhat unworldly scholarship student First day out, the preppie picks on the nerd and Class seems to be shaping up into a celluloid bildungstoman...
...does Author Richard Grenier, a sometime scriptwriter and now film critic for Commentary. Grenier's best scenes vividly mix farce and mayhem, but they remain set pieces. He is less concerned with tightening the strands of his narrative than with slashing away at the twin hypocrisies of Celluloid City and oil country. From Libya to Egypt to Iran his film makers go, struggling to shore up their collapsing finances, and everywhere they encounter nothing but fanaticism, ignorance, treachery and greed. Readers interested in a balanced view of the Arab world should look elsewhere. If life is not fair...
When Richard Gere, resplendent in his Navy whites, carried Debra Winger off into the celluloid sunset in An Officer and a Gentleman, audiences everywhere cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...
...morally sound group, do the pundits, and beautiful people of the Academy appoint themselves as society's dictators of true intellectual value? Does Richard Attenborough, who reportedly devoted more than a decade to his brainchild, thus become the father of morality for his conscientious use of the celluloid...