Word: crassness
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Alonzo's principal collaborator on FM is Ezra Sacks, a screenwriter with an unabashed affection for recent American movies. His script, which seems to be about a war between hip deejays and crass moneymen at a Los Angeles radio station, is a scrupulous homage to such entertainments as Car Wash and Between the Lines. At least one of his three jokes is right out of MASH. Film buffs will undoubtedly have a whale of a time picking out such references to other movies; viewers with a less academic bent may wonder if Sacks might not be trafficking in stolen...
...Mark Lester's prissy portrayal of the title roles aside - are fun in their bizarre way. Ernest Borgnine yells out his lines in an un abashed American accent and bulges his eyes in every closeup, proving once again that he is the last word in screen vulgarity. His crass pyrotechnics are almost topped by Charlton Heston, who turns Henry VIII's death scene into a veritable anthology of hammy acting gestures. Raquel Welch, no fool, sees to it that she is more seen than heard...
...does not look tired enough to have finished medical school, plays Dr. Susan Wheeler, a brilliant surgical resident who stumbles prettily from creepy suspicion to grisly certainty. But no one in the hospital, including the kindly chief of staff (Richard Widmark), will take her seriously. Her lover, a crass young intern (Michael Douglas) who looks as if he will make a great golfer some day, keeps saying "I know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either. Is he one of the nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains...
...lesser-known political and social provisions. He thought that an amendment tacked onto the bill by Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.), allowing judges to deny pre-trial release to persons accused of murder, treason, rape, sabotage, or trafficking in narcotics, is probably unconstitutional. Dershowitz agreed the provision was a "crass political compromise." Vorenberg refused comment on the Dole amendment...
...People who talk about "the crass commercialism of Christmas" every year are boring...