Word: cynic
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...publisher in the great beyond," Makepeace learns. Will she learn anything else, like how to write a good lead or tell the difference between comptroller and controller? More important, will she ever get her Big Story into print? In the end, she begins to grasp the cynic's first rule of journalism: the most important byline is the one on the paycheck...
...struck more by the everyday American plenty than by the grander promise. "All these tennis courts," he exults, "where anybody can play for free! And lying empty most of the day." His ingenuous pleasure could make a cynic weep. "The apples, the peaches, the strawberries are all so good here, and cheap! The first time my wife and I went to the market together," he says, "we spent $20 just on fruits and vegetables." One of his small dreams: "I'd like to go to an American disco some day and dance...
...other hand, the acting in Jedi is better than it was in the other two. Ford was always good as the likable, daredevil cynic, but Fisher and, most particularly, Hamill have broadened and matured their talents. In his final scenes with Vader, Hamill provides Luke with a hitherto unsuspected depth of personality. Despite its shortcomings, which are relatively minor in context, the film succeeds, passing the one test of all enduring fantasy: it casts a spell and envelops its audience in a magic...
...nostalgia must have promoted the film industry to dust off this relic--though a cynic might posit that this early film by now-recognizable stars might be a safe box-office bet. Although the movie reveals the then-burgeoning talents of co-director DePalma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out), actress Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman), and Robert DeNiro (The Godfather, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull), the film doesn't warrant renewed interest as if it were a resurrected unified piece of art. The public forgot it easily enough in 1969, and--not so strangely--it's as unremarkable...
...fame which dominate his later years. With Robin Williams of "Mork and Mindy" fame as Garp and a cast of unknowns playing the other principal characters, there may be a tendency towards pessimism even among the most avid Garpmaniacs. Irving's sprawling tive makes it easy for the cynic to believe that the powerful literary work will degenerate on film to a gory suburban piece of horror schlock, without traces of the charm and humor of the book...