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...Shepherd, as Gil Ivy, a good husband and kind father who buckles under the threat of losing his farm, is much more believable, if less heroic, than his on-screen wife. While the script leaves Gil's character largely undeveloped. Shepherd does a marvelous job with what part he has, bringing a freshness and honesty to his lines that are sorely missing from the rest of the film...
...FACT, the movie's best scenes are those between Gil and his children. When Marlene, his Smartaleck young daughter, asks her brother if he almost died during a farming accident (which of course occured during the midst of the inevitable storm). Gil relieves; he tension by answering that he too almost died once. "When I first saw your mother, right there in history class. I had a heart attack--fell right off my chair. They had to call an ambulance and everything," ambulance and everything...
...stubborn and haunted as a dirt farmer caught in Dorothea Lange's lens. This is an unashamedly political film, spoiling to pin responsibility for the small, independent farmer's troubled times on the shrugging shoulders of the Reagan Administration. However majestic Jewell Ivy (Jessica Lange), her husband Gil (Sam Shepard) and their teen-age son Carlisle (Levi L. Knebel) may appear in profile against the Iowa sky, they are still vulnerable to being devoured in the tractor tracks of bureaucracy. And Gil, a defiant homesteader who can't take maybe for an answer, is in danger...
There is ample invention .in the production, but not all of it is fully realized. Cinderella is provided with a pet cat (Gil Boggs) who neatly steals all his scenes. The stepsisters, lunging around in their toe shoes, are fun at first, but they have few bits of bright business and very little individuality. A similar blandness mars the heroine. The choreographers seem to have more respect than affection for Cinderella, and the steps she is given are not memorable. Cynthia Gregory uses lovely floating balances and her skills as an actress to project the part through a theater...
...sulking in competitive corporate quarters, however. Says David Lieberman, whose Lieberman Enterprises stocks more than 2,000 record outlets: "The best thing for a record company is to have a hit. The second best thing for a record company is for somebody else to have a hit." Comments Gil Friesen, president of A&M: "The whole industry has a stake in this success." The fallout from Thriller has given the business its best year since the heady days of 1978, when it had an estimated total domestic revenue of $4.1 billion...