Word: halloween
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Trick or treat, the split season may not end until Halloween...
...Ohio are the first hopeful Trident news in years. In June, Captain Alton Thompson took the big black sub out to sea for the first time. The Navy described the three days of trials as "super swell." Electric Boat has promised to deliver the Ohio to the Navy by Halloween. A brand-new $706.5 million Trident base is waiting in Bangor, Wash., and the Lockheed-built Trident missiles-each tipped with up to ten warheads-have been ready for two years...
...that is a shame, because Carpenter is talented (Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13), and because the idea of New York as penal colony has so much potential. Carpenter, though, simply wastes the possibilities. Manhattan, with its mounumental architecture on every block, has an abundance of magnificent locations for titanic, evil struggles. Why then did Carpenter choose to set Escape mostly in the anonymous alleys and burntout storefronts of other cities? And why does he employ location shots for a meaningless wrestling match (featuring a performer who bears an admirable resemblance to that titan of professional wrestling. George "The Animal" Steele...
What Carpenter has done is to create a complicated and silly story where a simple and effective plot would have worked better. The appeal of his fantastically successful Halloween lay in the unadorned menace of the villain; New York could have served a similar function. It is a city of extremes, both good and bad, and Carpenter, might have seized its evil and wrung from it a portrait of malignancy out of control. But he didn't. He didn't even try. It wouldn't have been that difficult--all he had to do was ride the subways...
Crowned the "Queen of the Creepies" for her roles in such harem-scarems as Halloween and Prom Night, Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, 22, graduates to real life in her next part but still plays a victim. In the NBC-TV movie The Dorothy Straiten Story, Curtis will play the Playmate of the Year turned actress who was murdered last August by her husband. The daughter of Actor Tony Curtis, 56, and Actress Janet Leigh, 54, Jamie will be dressed for family viewing in the TV movie, but will show off those good family lines in a racier European version...