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...dynamic o the travelling Barrow robber gang is also a fantastic exploration in love, friendship and trust. The trust that keeps the group going and the deceit that is their ultimate demise is a reminder that youth, and excitement (and ultimately any moment) are never everlasting. The viewer realizes the partnership between Bonnie and Clyde is only as strong as fortuitous circumstance allows. "Bonnie and Clyde" bears this "carpe-diem" message in a most vibrant, electric...
...celebrities -- certifiable ones, as well as members of the over-the- hill gang -- struggling less and less with the stigma of selling? While stars like Laurence Olivier and Candice Bergen have always fronted for high- profile products (and others, like Michael Douglas and Jack Lemmon, do uncredited voice-overs on commercials), a growing number of celebrities are entering the traditionally shadowy universe of direct marketing. "More so than ever, we have clients coming to us saying, 'I want to do an infomercial. Find me the right one,' " claims Rick Bradley, a talent representative at the William Morris Agency who pairs...
Grease has no plot; the scenario that connects the musical numbers is the arrival of a new girl at Rydell High, Sandy Dumbrowski (Susan Wood). After her summer romance with high school hot-shot Zuko, he ignores her in front of his gang of delinquent buddies. She is improbably accepted by the Pink Ladies, the school's group of wilder women, despite their scorn for her virginal bobby-sox image. The acting is competent but no one shines. Some genuine emotion or a bit of chemistry between the couples might have made the evening somewhat more bearable. The audience...
...without the faintest interest in the crystalline world of figure skating could not help marveling at the spectacle. Did the scrappy girl from the trailer parks, who has climbed so high and suffered so much, possibly plot to destroy her rival? Or did her violently jealous husband assemble a gang of goons to act without her knowledge but on her behalf? If so, was the motive love or money? If not, why are others smearing his name with dirt? And if Tonya Harding turns out to be innocent, how searing must it be that more than a few people could...
...afternoon street-corner rallies drawing crowds that numbered in the thousands. For every constituency, he designed a tailor-made message. The military received pledges of a resurrected and expanded Russian Empire. Fixed- income pensioners and students were promised a decent standard of living. Crime-weary citizens were assured that gang leaders would be executed. Meanwhile, foreigners were offered up as scapegoats, and Jews were blamed for provoking anti-Semitism...