Word: corliss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspiration. He seems not to realize that in a one-man show, the only person he can upstage is himself. One wants to say to him: Ben, you got the part. Relax a little, and be what you are: a splendid actor and a brand-new star. -By Richard Corliss...
...series is "in the tradition of Giant and Hud, "and it is. It is also in the Saturday-night graveyard slot, so it will have to corral an audience quickly. The Yellow Rose deserves a shot: this lowdown hoedown is the fall's juiciest new show. -By Richard Corliss...
...steely authority from behind his gentle smile and bow tie-a humanized George Will. But Mary Steenburgen, an actress of eaglet resourcefulness, looks both too frail and too stubborn to bring Rawlings to life. One wishes Cross Creek well; one wishes even more that it were better. -By Richard Corliss...
...played Taps with such glamour or good humor. Play the music and let the big chill-the knowledge that "we're all alone out there, and we're going out there tomorrow"-melt away in the warmth of the feel-good movie of '83. -By Richard Corliss...
...Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even udicrous. Oshima describes the wartime Japanese as ''a nation of anxious people who could do nothing individually-so they went mad en masse." Alas, he does not explain that madness; he only puts it on horrific display. -By Richard Corliss...