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...movie but it starts with a basic formula: a tough, leathery sergeant (Lee Marvin) who survived The First War returns to Europe leading a pack of good but green recruits against Hitler's huns. Mark Hamill is the soft-spoken hero with a streak of cowardice. Bobby DiCicco is the eyetalian who wants to open a bagel shop when he gets home. Kelly Ward is the quiet cartoonist who draws pictures when he's not drawing fire. And Robert Carradine is Sam Fuller, a scruffy, fast-talking writer from Brooklyn who lives on cigar smoke instead of oxygen...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...movie but it starts with a basic formula: a tough, leathery sergeant (Lee Marvin) who survived The First War returns to Europe leading a pack of good but green recruits against Hitler's huns. Mark Hamill is the soft-spoken hero with a streak of cowardice. Bobby DiCicco is the eyetalian who wants to open a bagel shop when he gets home. Kelly Ward is the quiet cartoonist who draws pictures when he's not drawing fire. And Robert Carradine is Sam Fuller, a scruffy, fast-talking writer from Brooklyn who lives on cigar smoke instead of oxygen...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...movie but it starts with a basic formula: a tough, leathery sergeant (Lee Marvin) who survived The First War returns to Europe leading a pack of good but green recruits against Hitler's huns. Mark Hamill is the soft-spoken hero with a streak of cowardice. Bobby DiCicco is the eyetalian who wants to open a bagel shop when he gets home. Kelly Ward is the quiet cartoonist who draws pictures when he's not drawing fire. And Robert Carradine is Sam Fuller, a scruffy, fast-talking writer from Brooklyn who lives on cigar smoke instead of oxygen...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Gale). Set around Los Angeles right after Pearl Harbor, the film shows what might have happened if panicky Californians had convinced themselves that they were under Japanese at tack. The frantic characters come in all ages and types. There are jitterbugging kids at a USO dance (Treat Williams, Bobby DiCicco), trigger-happy soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Bursting in Air | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...upended parent-child relationships, destroyed the Brylcreem market and supplanted the Kennedys as teen-age-culture heroes. One girl is so shaken by Beatlemania that she breaks up with her fiance; she suddenly senses that life has more possibilities than she had previously realized. A loud mouthed boy (Bobby DiCicco) tries to chop down the Sullivan show's transmitter because he knows that the Beatles mean the death of his macho '50s-greaser style. But history cannot be stopped, and the film ends with an ingenious restaging of the Beatles' TV debut. The scene is surprisingly affecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Dreams | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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