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...beginning of the picture, Libby says that she's going to Hollywood to become an actress and improve "the crap they've been putting out lately." Unfortunately, I Ought to be in Pictures is hardly an improvement. One can't resist drawing comparisons between Simon and the character of Herb Tucker, who is also a screenwriter who hasn't written a successful work for a number of years. If Simon continues with the same overused storylines, ignoring realistic character development, then he may become just as stale as the character he has created. In the final analysis, there...

Author: By Lewis DE Simon, | Title: The Goodbye Playwright | 5/13/1982 | See Source »

When it was suggested that the President delay by three months his 10% tax cut for 1983, Reagan commented: "You're making me crap a pineapple." House Majority Leader Jim Wright pushed harder, urging him to halve the tax cut to 5%. Reagan complained that he was being asked to substitute a cactus for the pineapple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summit That Failed | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...menach for sticking to his guns and being serious, if that's the way he wants to be. Inside, you kick yourself because the bottom line is that making out with Suzi Scarsdale is making out with Suzi Scarsdale. Her older sister pulled the same crap on you. "Let's go get some ice cream," you say to Harold, and you spend a bitter-sweet chocolate evening arising about...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out for the Harolds | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...CORN has to be crap On Gold Pond is reminiscent of another film that is certainly not discardable--Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Both movies have the same wild American optimism that everything can be overcome, that no problem is too much for well-meaning people. It's Wonderful Life was much more carefully crafted. Its direction was far better than Mark Rydell's in On Golden Pond; Capra's film avoids the dippy touches like shots of water lillies set to flute music and the cozy nature symbolism that pervade the Pond. Still, both films...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: On Golden Caramel | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

...Jane goes through more crap to act," Fonda says, "instead of just doing it. I don't believe you study acting. You feel it, know it, play it." When Jane and Dabney Coleman, who played Chelsea's beau, would take time to discuss motivation, Kate and Hank would have giggle fits. In one scene, Jane recalls, "we were setting up a light, and I wanted it moved so I could see Dad better and he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Who Get It Right | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

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