Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper, Julia sounds like an exemplary American film. In sharp contrast to most current big-budget movies, it trades in serious ideas rather than comic-book fantasies, and it even has the guts to buck Hollywood's longstanding embargo on heroines by starring two strong, intelligent women who care about other things than men. Since they are played by Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, it's hard to imagine how Julia could fail -but fail, to a sad extent, it does. For all the taste, talent and money that have been lavished on this film, it is stubbornly...
...film is strewn with lyrical Truffaut conceits (including some giddy montages of women's legs), as well as a few comic seduction scenes, but it is arguably the shallowest of this great director's works. In Truffaut's best movies, such as Jules and Jim and Stolen Kisses, the heroes struggle mightily with the eternal conflicts of love, and the audience is all the wiser for living through their torment...
Sillitoe contrasts his military prowess and civilian naivete through his sexual initiation with two sisters. His treatment of the two shop girls and their family is both comic and penetrating. Later, when retired colonel Scorton manages a bowling and billiards hall, Sillitoe again shows his feel for common people through his description of the clintele. His portrait of Scorton's underling, named Oxton, is the book's best characterization. The retired gunner is a lovable bachelor dependent on the need to serve...
Cinderella's coach turned into a pumpkin-and Jonathan Winters' head has now suffered the same fate. With a little help from his makeup man, Comic Winters ripens into a big jack-o'-lantern on the set of Walt Disney's special, The Halloween Hall o' Fame. The show, scheduled to air Oct. 30 on NBC, stars Winters as a bumbling night watchman who swaps heads with a talking pumpkin. The tricks and treats are vintage Disney, and Winters loved it all-especially his costume. "I was secure with my head," he says. "I knew...
...exports do keep the production lines continually operating. But Sampson only cites the age-old argument about the "deterrent" effect of weapons to toy with its absurdity. The weapons companies' claim of merely selling to those in need or able to afford an "honest price" becomes even more painfully comic when Sampson shows how former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and his successors turned a cold war military aid program into a high pressure export industry...