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...lost his customary sharpness and floundered around in a bland, sentimental limbo. Likewise, My Favorite Year contains too many lovable characters, too many cute situations, and in the end it becomes oppressively fluffy. Even the movie's villains corrupt teamster boss and his henchmen turns out as threatening as cigar-chomping teddy bears in pinstripes...
...Iacocca, the brash, cigar-chomping chairman of Chrysler Corp., is an optimist by nature. At the introduction of his company's 1983 model cars at The Woodlands Inn & Country Club near Houston last week, however, he could scarcely disguise a sense of frustration. Said Iacocca: "Chrysler is ready to go; unfortunately the economy is not. There's a lot of fear out there because there's a lot of uncertainty about interest rates, currency values and our economic policy...
...graciously shook hands with the world's most familiar otherworldly character (animated on this occasion by a midget within). The audience went wild. Who knows, E.T. may now develop an itch for show biz. Cut to the munchkin megastar, reclining by the pool, sporting dark shades, puffing a cigar. A voice over the loudspeaker says, "E.T, phone office...
This richly documented chronicle of Churchill's first four decades by the versatile biographer and journalist (Maugham; Rowing Toward Eden) catches Churchill on all fours. Here, the world statesman is still a vote-grabbing politician, and the supreme war strategist a romantic blunderer. The omnipresent cigar, the V sign and the stentorian voice on the wireless are a World War away...
Lighting is the vital element in main-taming the illusion. Full-time Technical Director Carl Callaway, who has spent 38 of his 48 years working on the pageant, has mastered the art of creating an impression of flatness, the opposite of most canvas artists' aim. A brawny, cigar-chomping character who doubles as carpenter, electrician, painter and engineer, Callaway faces the major problem of lighting a show that is held after dark in a variety of weather conditions...