Word: chases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOTH FREIDKIN'S picture and Penn's boast elaborate set-piece car chases. Friedkin's French Connection- style wrong-way run on the L.A. freeways may be more spectualar, but Arthur Penn's chase scene, dismissed by most critics, is exciting in a precise, stripped-down way. It gets an equal measure of audience applause in the theatres, presumably because of rooting interest in the father-son duo at the heart of the film...
...goalie--or he may not. But there is no finer backstop in the East. With his kick saves and sprawling stops, Blair is as acrobatic in the net as any gymnast doing the floor excercises. Expect him to collect enough gold medal-winning performances this campaign to give Fusco chase for ECAC Player of the Year honors...
...MALTESE FALCON is a picture about nothing. Bogie and a whole host of famous but forgotten stars chase after this statue of some bird that's supposed to be worth a trillion dollars. It turns out that Nature (in this case, the aforementioned bird) has played a trick on Man, and the statue turns out to be worth little more than a couple of back issues of Penthouse's Madonna issue. In any case, Dewitt has seen both of these classics about 20 times on PBS, but the communal viewing experience might be worth the five-odd bucks...
Those pastel police from TV's Miami Vice never leave the station house without some trendy disco music. Now millions of their fans are hopping to the same cop pop. An album of songs culled from the program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month. Last week the record reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine chart, propelled by two Top Ten singles, the instrumental Miami Vice Theme by Jan Hammer and You Belong to the City by Glenn Frey. While movie sound tracks like last summer...
...Chernin, executive vice president of programming at Showtime. "We have to have more than just a few good movies to make subscribing worthwhile." < Showtime hopes to attract and hold subscribers with such regular items as Brothers, about a homosexual and his two siblings; the long-running drama The Paper Chase; and a batch of "rediscovered" episodes of The Honeymooners. HBO, while downplaying the importance of series, this season will offer six new segments of Philip Marlowe--Private Eye, starring Powers Boothe, along with the new episodes of such returning series as Not Necessarily the News and The Hitchhiker...