Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bother with the bell, though. He'll announce himself by shooting the front door full of holes. The guy with the gat is Roland Gift, lead singer of a nifty rock band called the Fine Young Cannibals, and movie star aborning. In that scene from Scandal, a just opened cinema chronicle of Britain's Profumo- Keeler scandal of the early '60s, Gift is doing onscreen the same sort of number he's been running on the music scene: making a little room for himself and raising a major ruckus...
...this sequel mania evidence of economic health or of creative bankruptcy? Cunningly, the theatrical-film industry has held its ground against the marauding armies of the video revolution. In fact, one format has fed the other, as audiences first view pictures on the big screen, then supplement their cinema appetite at home. Last year saw record grosses both for theatrical films and for videocassettes. But movie budgets have increased as well, and even a gambling man turns cautious with $40 million on the table. Hence the moguls have relied on brand names and roman numerals...
...Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...
David Puttnam bemoans the decline of the cinema and criticizes the bloated moviemakers, actors and agents who are responsible for its undeserved fall from grace...
...Cinema...