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...throughout are references to or quotations from Dante's favorite movies: The Searchers, Close Encounters, The Wizard of Oz, To Please a Lady, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Orpheus, The Road Warrior, It's a Wonderful Life, animated cartoons by Warners Old Masters Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, the complete works of Roger Corman. You have to be sharp to catch some of the references. At a meeting of gadgeteers, Billy's dad chats with Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet as Spielberg tools about in wheelchair and leg cast; in the background is H.G. Wells...
...Bobby Clampett, 22, fired a five-under-par 65 yesterday to share the lead with Lance Ten Broeck after the first round of the $250,000 Southern Open Golf Tournament in Columbus, Georgia...
...with an edge that makes everything seem electrifyingly spontaneous. As the 85-year-old man who dreams of building the supercar that every American can own, Olivier takes the word "feisty" to new heights, and if it weren't so demeaning to see him play a variation on Granny Clampett at this stage of his career, you could enjoy the performance for its impudence. Even more brilliant are his quieter, serious moments, when this hackneyed material takes on larger dimensions. Perhaps the best scene in The Betsy occurs after Olivier has presented his son (Paul Rudd in an earnest performance...
...were made. The cartoons are representative, but they show Bugs only at his intermittent best. Many of his finest efforts are missing because rights were not available. Vintage home movies of the animation unit are fun, but Filmmaker Jackson relies too much on the reminiscences of Cartoon Director Bob Clampett to fill in the facts. Clampett pays scant attention to his contemporaries-Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones-and endeavors to portray himself as Looney Tunes' brightest light. The two best cartoons in the show, however, are the work of others...
...make matters worse, not only was I a California, but I was reared in that affluent ghetto of Beverly Hills. I grew tired of people who would ask me what movie stars I knew intimately, or if Jed Clampett lived next door. Little did they realize that I lived on the south side of the tracks...