Word: funning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several campy collections of old TV and movie material are fun as well. ( Rhino's Sleazemania series contains howlingly bad excerpts from old antidrug shorts, soft-core porno and previews for grade-Z melodramas ("Terrifying realism! Claws at your unbelieving mind!"). The Video Doll Shoppe, from the New York City-based Video Resources, is a compilation of doll commercials from the 1950s and '60s, including a gloriously dopey promotional film from the Ideal Toy Corp. describing the invention and manufacture of Betsy Wetsy...
...excuse for propagating a few laughs, it turns an honorable tradition upside down. Princes and princesses from innocently backward realms used to turn up regularly in movies, looking for romantic and material bedazzlement in the more highly developed lands. This young potentate experiments with the notion that fun may be found in letting royalty rough it for a while below the poverty line. Besides, Eddie Murphy, the nation's top box-office star, is Akeem. And Arsenio Hall, who made waves and friends as host of Fox Broadcasting's The Late Show last year, is Semmi, a royal aide...
Gentlemen, let's face the facts. Tyson, at 22 years old, is unbeatable. He showed that against Spinks. It's time to have some fun with that very simple fact...
Murphy's on/offscreen buddy Arsenio Hall, who also gained TV fame for his mimicry, does the same: in addition to his primary role in America as Murphy's sidekick, he plays a fiery preacher, another old barber and a horny redheaded woman. half the fun of this film is playing Guess The Cameo...
...many versions of this saga contradicted one another and the facts of the matter; they were invariably pithy and memorable. Donaldson's determination to set the record straight leads him to a repudiation of Cheever's freewheeling manner. Cliches seem to certify sober, scholarly research: "Life was not all fun and games, however" . . . "The New Yorker's taste was genteel, and as time wore on Cheever wrote about everything under the sun" . . . "Fred was the apple of his father...