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While mocking popular melodramas of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England, Ruddygore is a melodrama in its own right. The plot revolves around a country gentleman Robin Oakapple (Phillip Resnick) who has run away from his position as the duke of Murgatroyd because in order to be duke, he must follow a long-standing family tradition and (of course) commit a crime a day. Oakapple falls in love with the beautiful village maiden Rose Maybud (Erika Fox Zabusky) who has a particular fetish with etiquette...
...Measure is the story of Angelo, the Duke of Vienna's deputy, who is given the task of enforcing the city's disregarded laws while the Duke is away traveling. In the course of purging the city of its sins, Angelo condemns to death a young gentleman, Claudio, for getting his finance, Juliet, with child. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads in vain for her brother's life. Angelo in return displays a lack of pity which proves all the more hidcous when his own unbridled lust is uncovered. In the end, Christian mercy and the "natural order" of life prevail...
...literary prize in Britain and is a perennial contender for the Nobel. Naipaul, the chronicler of the Third World, is on assignment for the London Sunday Times. He and Thompson are unlikely friends. The gonzo journalist is quirky, boisterous, happiest when surrounded by cronies in the hotel bar; the gentleman writer is quiet, refined, more comfortable at afternoon tea. But careering around the island, chasing slender threads of news, they seem a matched pair. "It's like having a third eye," Thompson says. "He's sane and has a crazy sense of humor...
Raiders will give new momentum to an industry already shifting into fast forward. Some 8 million video cassettes will be sold this year, up 33% from 1982. Paramount has helped spark the surge by slashing videotape prices. In February the company brought out An Officer and a Gentleman at $39.95, far less than the standard $59.95-to-$79.95 price tag for hit movies. The cassette quickly sold 80,000 copies at a time when sales of 25,000 were considered the video equivalent of earning a gold record. Paramount has had several other $39.95 smashes, including Star Trek...
...fond of the Reagan era either, contending that abroad the President "is seen as Teddy Roosevelt with a pack of missiles in his hand." And how is Cooke seen? "It's comic but true," he sighs. "I seem to be perceived in America as a benign old English gentleman, and in England as an enlightened American...