Word: daft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schlockmeister Roger Gorman on a frayed-shoestring budget (way under $100,000), using no-name actors (including a 23-year-old Jack Nicholson) on grungy sets left over from another picture. It was filmed in an impossible two days. But Screenwriter Charles B. Griffith extracted 70 minutes of fast, daft humor from his blending of the horror and science-fiction genres...
...strongest roles, Redgrave dispalys a daft, heroic sanctity. Here she is to wear the sensible shoes of a Jo Woodward type. She won't fit; her talent is too big. So, at the start of this two-hour drama, Redgrave and the viewer strain and squint to miniaturize her legend into the everyday character of Leenie Cabrezi. It is an act of self-denial: she must lower the pilot light of her unique intensity and convince through an effort of will and craft...
...collection of sketches and stories is a quality hard to describe without making him seem fatuous and the describer sound balmy. He is in love with the upper Midwest, with the region and the people that Sinclair Lewis derided. He is rooted, fond of hickishness, fascinated by the utter, daft strangeness of the ordinary. At 39, he lives in St. Paul, not far from where he grew up, and although he has taken note of East Coast sophistication to the extent of sending most of these pieces to The New Yorker, he is firmly in place as a gifted regional...
Most actresses would have taken pride in the daft charm that Lange brought to her debut in King Kong; few actresses could have gracefully endured the Kong hype to which she was subjected. "I was naive," she says, "and it brought me pain. For a while I lost control over my own life. I didn't work for two years." So when Bob Rafelson walked into a motel room in North Carolina, where Lange was appearing in a threadbare sex comedy, she was ready to show him what moviegoers had missed. Rafelson recalls that he found "an incredibly sensual...
Altered States. A modern Dr. Jekyll unleashes the primal beast within himself. The meeting of Paddy Chayefsky and Ken Russell set off a daft, cagey combustion of ideas and styles, producing a fantasy of delirium and delight...