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COVER: Photo illustration for TIME by Matt Mahurin. Based on a photograph from the Granger Collection...
...still prized by movie marketers. But in the scramble to fill up ads with gushy testimonials -- especially for films that haven't opened yet or have drawn tepid reviews -- publicists are turning increasingly to a cadre of lesser lights, mostly from radio and TV, with seemingly boundless enthusiasms. Susan Granger, who reviews for Connecticut's WICC radio and is now syndicated on about 100 stations, has lured moviegoers with passionate quotes for everything from Consenting Adults ("spine-tingling, disturbing, sexy, seductive!") to Forever Young ("a heart grabber that lifts the spirit"). Joanna Langfield, whose radio feature The Movie Minute...
Critics more willing to play along defend their actions as perfectly ethical. Granger says she supplies copies of all her reviews in advance because the studio publicists would not be able to see them otherwise. "I feel I owe them a review, bad or good or mediocre," she says. "I don't consider it a problem because I treat all films the same way." Langfield insists that it is the studios' publicity tactics, not her reviewing, that have changed since she started in 1980. "Back then you never got a phone call from a publicist asking what you thought...
First stop is Granger Oldsmobile in Countryside, where Drew bought his Olds 98. "That one there!" Heather cries right away, pointing to a photo of a cherry-red Cutlass Supreme convertible. Salesman Dan Leversen cautions her, "That's the hardest car to get ahold of." He has no red Cutlass convertibles, but "we have a white one coming in." Julie's eyes widen in alarm as Leversen reveals the $24,232 sticker price. "I doubt Dad would spend $24,000," Julie says...