Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NIGHT OF THE FOX...
...Islands during World War II. The narrative is full of cinematic echoes. There is a real Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and a fake ("Heini Baum, Jewish actor and cabaret performer from Berlin and proud of it"), both of whom suggest James Mason in the title role of The Desert Fox. There is an Allied intelligence agent living hazardously as a German officer; Christopher Plummer lounged through just such a role in Hanover Street. A heartbreakingly young and beautiful Englishwoman (already played by Deborah Kerr, Julie Andrews et al.) is caught up in the action, as such tales require, feeling...
J.F.K. signaled his intention in 1960 when he had his hair cut back. Thereafter he drove the Senate barbers wild with his persnickety instructions for a presidential trim. He ordered Frances Fox's special amber hair tonic rubbed into his dome daily on the campaign trail. He refused to wear a hat lest the felt crush his coif...
...fronts called the Barbusters; and her enemy is Mom (Gena Rowlands), who drives Patti bats with her meddling, consuming love. Patti seceded from the family when she had a son out of wedlock. "I wanted something she had no part of," Patti tells her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Joe, the Barbusters' lead guitarist, is peacemaker in the Rasnick war, but sometimes he feels like a hostage to both sides. And in this family, one of the warring parties will have to die for the other to surrender...
...Fox, the elfin yuppie of TV's Family Ties, wears an earring and says naughty words but still looks as cute as a Disney toy. His fans won't forgive this film; they will ignore it. Rowlands, when she finally gets the chance, locates strength and heartbreak in her harridan matriarch. But Jett, rock star in her first movie role, is terrific. A sign in Light of Day reads PERFORMANCE IS A REFLECTION OF ATTITUDE. With her melodramatic dark eyes and mesmerizing surliness, Jett has the attitude and gives the performance. Try watching someone else when she is on screen...