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...debut. Just twice in the course of this infinite movie-a comedy-mystery into which someone forgot to put the comedy-does Chevy Chase get to do his famous impersonation of a klutz. One time he knocks over some glassware while attempting to project a suave image for Goldie Hawn; another time he falls off a gangplank into a river just after warning Hawn that it is slippery. At no other point is he given anything even remotely funny to say or do. It is hard to remember when a talented comic had fewer moments of risibility. He should thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chevy's Chase | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...caper he is entangled in, playing a detective, is about a group of antireligious fanatics who plan to assassinate the Pope during a visit to San Francisco. Hawn becomes the unwitting recipient of information about their plot when she gives a lift to an undercover cop. As the conventions of this sort of movie demand, Hawn has a hard time getting anyone to believe that 1) she is in danger and 2) something big is going on. Finally, of course, unavoidable evidence develops, and we cut to the chase. Alas, Director Colin Higgins has no higher skill in staging action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chevy's Chase | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...dispiriting film, the saddest moments belong to Dudley Moore, who plays a frustrated sex fiend whom Hawn keeps coming across. He is desperate for laughs, and Higgins, is frantic to provide them, but to no-or at least embarrassing avail. Higgins was the author of the popular Silver Streak; if you didn't realize it then, you will surely now understand how great was his debt to resourceful Richard Pryor for saving that similarly noisy and tasteless venture. Higgins should not make a move without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chevy's Chase | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...made her first big splash ten years ago, as a body-painted bikini girl on the old Laugh-In show. Now Goldie Hawn has switched to basketball scrimmages with the Harlem Globetrotters. "Playing with these guys, you've got to keep a stiff elbow and a stiff upper lip," explained the 5-ft. 6-in. Hawn, who taped the meeting for her March 1 TV special on CBS. More elbow and less lip might have worked better. Against the Globetrotters, Goldie came up short. ∙ During a vacation trip to Argentina last summer, Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...film is titled Foul Play, and that pretty much describes the way Actress Goldie Hawn is treated in the upcoming comedy-thriller. For her first picture in almost three years, Goldie clambers over a fourth-floor fire escape, straddles the rafters in a Los Angeles auditorium, and rides shotgun during a speedy car chase in hilly San Francisco. "It's v-e-r-y scary," says she. In fact, even a romantic love scene with Co-Star Chevy Chase had a few accidentally bad moments. When the pair started cuddling in front of a fireplace, burning embers ignited more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1978 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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