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Parker's accomplishments at Harvard are so well known that he comes very close to fitting the cliche "a legend in his own time"--at least for crew fans who, though few in number, tend to be rabid.
Read one way, maybe the wrong way, The Autograph Hound is a cliche checklist of comic Americana. It's set near Times Square (funny on the face of it, no?), and much of the action passes in an Italian restaurant where the Puerto Rican headwaiter is tricked out to...
We have heard the cliche that if a chimp typed continuously for a given length of time, the odds are that sooner or later an intelligent word or phrase would result.
Director John Avildsen, who made Joe, continues to prove himself a master of the visual cliche, the low-slung symbol and the stereophonic anticlimax. He is abetted by Scenarist Steve Shagan, a sort of drip-dry Clifford Odets, who puts klieg lights around every metaphor. According to the credits, Shagan...
IN ORDER to pull this off without sensationalism or cliche, Rhodes's style has to be cinematically vivid without being florid. He has to be personal enough to carry conviction, familiar enough to take us with him. Ambitious as he is, amazingly, he succeeds. It is rather frightening to realize...