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LUMBERJACKS are known for telling tall tales, mostly about themselves. Every logging camp has its own exaggerations: Ask around about a local Paul Bunyan at some lumberjack bar in southwestern Canada and you'll be told a few tongue-in-cheek stories. Even when they're drinking, the big men with the big-checked flannel shirts know pretty much where the truth stops and the fables begin. Nobody believes in The Blue Ox. Yet a lot of lumberjacks will swear by the existence of a giant humanoid standing close to ten feet tall and weighing up to 1000 pounds, called...
This all sounds familiar enough to rank automatically as satire, but the distributors or the director hadn't much confidence in their audience. The opening and closing scenes of Zardoz state with no attempt at subtlety that this movie's tongue is unequivocally planted in its cheek. The bulk of the movie is far less obvious. One suspects the distributor was learning the lessons of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. But while that film, after being recalled, was left unmutilated with a change only in the advertising campaign, Zardoz has been more clearly, albeit unnecessarily, labeled...
...Oscar awards will be announced on April 2. At the end of the film, Mouris said, "I made a tongue-and-cheek prediction about my future. So far, everything has happened right; the Oscar would be the last thing...
...enormous achievements of science in posting the universe that man inhabits, odd things keep slipping past the sentries. The tap on the shoulder may be fleeting, the brush across the cheek gone sooner than it is felt, but the momentary effect is unmistakable: an unwilling suspension of belief in the rational. An old friend suddenly remembered, and as suddenly the telephone rings and the friend is on the line. A vivid dream that becomes the morning reality. The sense of bumping into one's self around a corner of time, of having done and said just this, in this place...
...film schools at USC and UCLA, the two major feeders for TV and Hollywood, and partly for this reason the picture is flashy--over 400 special lab effects were used. "I tried to run the gamut," says Brown. Right now he's halfway through a tongue-in-cheek version of Robin Hood, based on the Errol Flynn movie and filmed in color with Robert Kennedy Jr. '76 in the leading role. Maid Marion was originally designed for a sophomore named Nicole Bourgois. It's inspired--an adventure story with Harvard's glamor stars. One can almost...