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Scholarly cinema fans should rewind their Bergman and Eisenstein and grab ahold of some textual analysis of this year's crop of TSFs. BETTER OFF DEAD (Sack Charles) is truly a watershed TSF, a self-referential picture that turns the genre on its head like nothing since David Smith. Students of pretentious but largely irrelevant allusions remember that David Smith made his sculpture by piecing together already recognizable objects and proved that sculpture needed to be no more than the sum of its pre-formed parts. Likewise, Better Off Dead tosses on the screen a collection of objets trouves from...
...those shots that O'Gorman didn't grab or deflect sailed just over the Big Red crossbar...
STEVE TESICH IS a master of the "sleeper" film. Such past screenplays of his like Breaking Away and Four Friends overcame lukewarm box office receptions to become favorites on TV and cable. Tesich writes movies that are humanly endearing that grab an older audience even if they leave the Rambo crowd unflexed...
...motif back to the gangster melodrama films of the 30's, with one twist. Like the vapid blonds in film noir, our housewife seeks her thrills in a more happening world, but there the comparison must end. Her idol is not a man, but Susan; her goal not to grab her idol's pants, but to wear them...
Under cloudy skies, the Jays showered the Royals and starter Charlie Liebrandt with singles. The hosts put together a two-run second and three-run third to grab an early commanding lead...