Word: coms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovery of his emotional insulation, never digging any deeper into the roots of his fears--you know, the primal stuff. Tribute winds up pat and tidy, without plunging us into the existential abyss that can make this sort of thing a real corker. The tragedy of the American sit-com writer has turned out awfully shallow. This bathos gives Jack Lemmon his star turn: fast-food epiphany, downstage center. Neither he nor Slade really needed this--although it must be fun to break down onstage. Tribute slobbers when it ought only to quiver; the mask comes off and the jelly...
Funny Girl. At the Harkness Com-Friday at 7:30, Saturday and Sunday...
...fierce com petition, business in the Valley of the Chips re mains something of a family affair. The corporate Abraham of the industry was Shockley Transistor Corp., founded in Palo Alto in 1956 by William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor and a Nobel laureate...
They said it couldn't be done. They said that no one could ever make a Viet Nam war movie as silly as John Wayne's legendary get-the-gooks epic, The Green Berets. But now we have The Boys in Com pany C, Sidney J. Furie's account of Marine warfare in the paddyfields, circa 1967-68. This inadvertently hilarious film is the Dien Bien Phu of war movies...
...movie is as ignorant of film-making niceties as it is of its subject. Com pany C was shot in the flat light one associates with porno films; its often incomprehensible plot contains more credibility gaps than a William West moreland press briefing. Though Furie staged much of the film on location in Asia, the Viet Nam he re-creates is as placid as the Hollywood he built for Gable and Lombard. Even the sting of death is absent: this may be the first war movie ever to climax with a ponderous soccer match instead of a battle...