Word: flick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brattle on Wednesday. It seems corny once in a while, but it's a technical masterpiece. Besides, everything is great to look at: The film was made on the beautiful island of Reunion off the African coast, and it stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Still another Truffaut flick, The Bride Wore Black starring the wonderful Jeanne Moreau, is the second feature on the bill...
Leading 1-0 after a first-inning run, Miami boosted the margin to 2-0 in the fourth with Vaughn Flick's home run. In the fifth Hurricane All-American Orlando Gonzales's single sent third baseman Jim Costa home, after Costa had singled and stolen second. In the sixth Holt walked Witt Beckman, gave up a bunt single to Marty Flick to set the stage for a run-scoring single by Wayne Krenchicki...
...been denied his film, managed to get it released again in the fall with a new ad campaign featuring ironic posters by a former Mad magazine artist. It did better, but still didn't pull the audience Altman knew it could. The first billing, as a hard-boiled detective flick, was completely misleading, but the public didn't seem to understand the light spoof Altman was actually trying to achieve, which the second-release publicity emphasized...
...line on Manhattan's Madison Avenue started forming before 8 a.m. each day. By 10 it had reached the proportions of a queue for The Exorcist or a new Linda Lovelace flick, except that there was something different about these people: everyone seemed to be clutching some kind of precious bundle. In fact, bundles of cash are what many of those in line now expect...
...main thing, however, is that the TV movies offer variety, but not too much of it-a nice overall blend of familiar faces and situations with newer personalities and original twists. Convenient to turn on, easy to flick off, movies made for TV approximate the conditions under which all movies used to be chanced by audiences years ago. They are a small but genuine blessing for persistently optimistic people who can remember when at least half the pleasure of moviegoing derived precisely from the fact that no sense of cultural occasion was attached to that simple, inexpensive act. "Richard Schickel