Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shampoo (Law School Auditorium): Travel with Warren Beatty on this wacky intergalactic adventure through space and time. Beatty, as the invincible Flash Speedo, along with sidekick Crusty Oldguy (Jack Warden) and faithful dog Arfie (Barbara Stanwyck) fiods himself in one sticky situation after another. Watch him battle Goldie Hawn as the hair-raising Dumb Blond Monster from the planet Nomind, a creature so terrible, its mere touch can turn a normal man into a silly sex object...
...Hartford Civic Center and say something like, "Everybody ready? We're sorry for the delay. Welcome the greatest rock and roll band in the world, The Rolling Stones." And then even if Keith Richards doesn't churn into the opening chords of "Jumpin' Jack Flash," as he does when he opens the epic live album, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out, 17,000 people will get just what they came for, fast and with no frills...
...children and all that, but I don't worry about it because I'm doing what I did before.... I only discovered this really by looking at other people in rock and roll.... It perpetuates your adolescence, for good or bad." Monday night they'll open with "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and it will be like nothing had ever changed...
...screenplay, by Gilliam and co-Python Michael Palin, is eclectic to the point of being wholly derivative, both thematically and visually. It draws on everything from the anti-modern stance of A Clockwork Orange, to the scenic flash of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the overt tackiness of the original Flash Gordon: yet it remains an underwhelming story. The adventure involves Kevin, a young, modern-age Briton (not so much played as walked through by unknown Craig Warnock), whose parents ive in subservience to hundreds of whirring, useless kitchen apparati and sit transfixed as horrific gameshows prance across...
...university don are merely two examples of the unconvincing stereotyping that pervades the film. Intent on criticizing the stuffiness and conservatism of the British aristocracy, director Hudson seemingly has forgotten that any portrayal--particularly a negative one--requires detail to convince. But detail does not appear. Instead, scenes flash by disjointedly: Gielgud and his colleague sip port and discuss school spirit; the Prince of Wales languorously puffs a cigarette and tries to convince Liddell to run the preliminary heat on Sunday "for the love of country...