Word: cocoon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuff pretty well, with gusts of anarchic energy and a gaggle of pruny character actors to undercut the sentiment. Frank Capra was a master at building social comedy to the apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his hat. Ron Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed...
...first to admit that he knows little about television or movie production. He does not even watch much television. He catches the news, and on Sundays maybe 60 Minutes and Murder, She Wrote. Murdoch is no film buff, either, though he recalls liking Fox's summer hit Cocoon and Universal's comedy Back to the Future. But he observes that the video business seems to be "much like publishing, where you have to be able to motivate the creative people while keeping enough order to do good business." In the process of imposing his order on the film business, Murdoch...
...Elmo's Fire: 10:15, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 10; Wildrose: 10:10, 12, 1:50, 3:45, 5:30, 7:50, 10; Compromising Positions: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:50; Wetherby: 10:30, 12:40, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Cocoon: 7:20, 10; Joshua Then And Now: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:45, 10:15; Creator: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10; Prizzi's Honor: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Maxie...
...Movers & Shakers: 10:15, 12:15, 2:15, 4:15, 6:15, 8, 10; Wildrose: 10:10, 12, 1:50, 3:45, 5:30, 7:50, 10; L'Addition: 5:15, 7:45, 10:10; Compromising Positions: 5, 7:30, 9:50; Wetherby: 5:15, 7:45, 10; Cocoon: 7:20, 10; Joshua Then And Now: 5, 7:45, 10:15; Mickey and Nickey...
Bold letters across the top of the page read, "Still crazy after all these years." Underneath the heading was a pair of bright yellow shoes which looked like it had been taken from a cast member of the movie Cocoon...