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...anniversary in 1987, the studio's The Golden Child, starring Comedian Eddie Murphy, is the hot Christmas movie, raking in $11.6 million in its first weekend at 1,667 theaters -- despite mixed reviews. Paramount's astonishing Australian import, "Crocodile" Dundee, has just finished its twelfth week as a top grosser, having earned more than $103 million at 1,495 theaters. Headed in the same direction is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which has earned $47.5 million in three weeks. Well ahead of them all is Paramount's Top Gun, which has taken in $168 million since...
...multiuntalented Peter Allen chosen to sing and dance a medley of Irving Berlin songs, when he can do neither? Or, more to the point, why was Gandhi, good as it is, chosen Best Picture over E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, the most popular movie of the year and the highest grosser (more than $350 million) of all time...
...grosser for the entire year was, of course, E.T., which ran up $322 million through Jan. 2 and by now may have displaced Star Wars ($325 million) as the biggest moneymaker of all time. Several light-years behind were the rest of the year's top ten: On Golden Pond ($120 million), Rocky III ($119 million), An Officer and a Gentleman ($109 million), Porky's ($107 million), Star Trek II ($85 million), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ($74.5 million), Poltergeist ($74 million), Chariots of Fire ($62 million) and Annie ($58 million...
While your film critic Richard Schickel does list some of the unsavory images in the film The Tin Drum [April 28], he gives no warning of the many scenes that reduce sexual love to obscene bestiality and make women grosser than men in their lustfulness. It is a repulsive film...
...equivocal French response by noting (incorrectly) that "France buys more oil from the Soviet Union than from Iran." Even the Giscard-Schmidt communiqué appeared indecisive to some. "It says to the Soviets, 'The next time you pull an Afghanistan you will be punished,' " complained Professor Alfred Grosser of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques. "That is the action of a weak parent...