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...latest Star Wars spinoff, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Nov. 17 on CBS, Diahann Carroll plays Mermia, a romantic vision from a water planet. She arrives on the screen when Attchituck, a 400-year-old member of the Wookie family, sits down at a special machine designed to enliven the imagination, closes his eyes and thinks X ratings. "I was very happy for him that at age 400 he could still have sensual, sexual fantasies," says Carroll, 43. "As a mere human, I was very jealous. I don't have that to look forward...
...never understand why Rubber Duck's nemesis (the congenitally irate Ernest Borgnine) is after him or what the truckers' grievances are. What's worse, we don't care. Next to this muddleheaded film, F.I.S.T. starts to look like a dynamic political manifesto. Peckinpah tries to enliven the nonsense with slow-motion automotive stunts and barroom brawls, but these signature sequences just do not have the energy of the director's best work (The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue) or even his worst (The Killer Elite, Bring Me the Head of Al fredo Garcia...
Amid the hype and hoopla that usually enliven its annual meetings in a vast warehouse at Needham, Mass., Polaroid Corp. last week pulled a few more rabbits from its seemingly bottomless hat of technological tricks. President William McCune Jr. showed off a new SX-70 camera that uses ultrasonic waves to focus its lens instantly and automatically. With unaccustomed modesty, Chairman Edwin Land, the father of instant photography, said: "This is the first development in which the only part I played was in expressing admiration for those who did the work...
...style has a touch of Raymond Chandler; the Fazenda case has a fleeting similarity to the unsolved 1940s Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles. The novel continually echoes tabloid history to enliven its central incident: a 28-year-old murder known as the "case of the Virgin Tramp...
...song her publicists claim rocketed her to instant international success in 1973. Immediately we are exposed to her breathy style and the tedium of the whole presentation. Like most of her versions of rock standards, "If Not For You" has no depth--there is no attempt to enliven the tune with good bass or percussion...