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...Teach the World to Sing" while simultaneously leading the cast in a chorus kick-line. Equally ridiculous is the light saber battle scene between Thumb and rival Lord Grizzle (Carl Bj Fox). Also garnering a high reading on the laughmeter is the cameo appearance of the ghost of Gaffer Thumb (Eric Olsen), who surfaces via the magic of video...
...Whatever hopes a gaffer might have that the likes of Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips (an actor who curiously combines sweetness and menace and may have the brightest future of them all) could reinvigorate the moribund western form are quickly blotted out by the cloud of ineptitude raised by Young Guns. Profit, yes. The fool thing took in more than $19 million in its first two weeks of release...
...around in the sand with Tarzan and an orangutan, in a menagerie a trois that amounts to little more than kinky sex. It'll probably be the first time you stick around until the credits end and the projector shuts off--"but Mom, I want to see who the gaffer is!" But it's not worth the price of admission just to see John Derek play out his sexual fantasies about his wife. If you really need a Bo Derek fix, pick up a copy of Playboy--at least you won't have to hear her talk...
...during the first day of filming (in Ireland, with 300 Irish extras as American and British soldiers), and chaos erupts. The film troops, sleeping in tents, are restless, and there is a rumor that Bean will use real bullets in the filming. The Cockney crew members, led by the gaffer, threaten a workers' revolt against Bean-cum-Washington, but they hold together to film the British charge up Bunker Hill--hilariously staged, dummies and all. But they can't hold out, and the turncoat Wes, convinced that "Washington" will be a disaster, finally stops the action with the help...
Alec Guinness may have abandoned his Star Wars' light-sword for a more earthly riding crop, but the Force is still with him. In Little Lord Fauntleroy, a CBS-TV movie, he plays the Earl of Dorincourt, a crusty old gaffer gradually softened by his grandson's winsome ways. Guinness, 66, who found himself "with a moist eye now and then" while reading his part, was beguiled by his young costar, Ricky Schroder, 10, who plays the Brooklyn tot turned aristocrat. (This is the third movie version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic: Mary Pickford played "Fauntleroy...