Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dressed in street clothes, and reading from scripts, actors from across the East Coast presented the terse and complex rythyms of the verse drama that was the staple of the Poet's Theater, which closed in 1968. Two plays by Lowell Professor of Humanities William Alfred, "Agamemnon" and "Hogan's Goat," comprised the body of tonight's performances...
...jaws of king croc. In the urban jungle of Manhattan he is as flummoxed as King Kong -- wary of escalators, bidets and soul-man handshakes -- but eager to buck the odds. It is The Gods Must Be Crazy in whiteface, and ingratiating enough to make Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) a man for all box offices. After topping E.T.'s record take in Australia, this shambling comedy (directed by Peter Faiman) filched $8 million its first U.S. weekend. Hogan is already familiar to TV viewers as the roguish spokesman for Australian tourism. Now, flashing his smile and a brisk...
...Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan andHartson is conducting the defense. Their legalfees are paid by People for the American Way andthe American Civil Liberties Union. The plaintiffsare being financed by fundamentalist preacher theRev. Pat Robertson, said Coles
...plot of "Crocodile" Dundee is hardly more than an updated version of The Country Mouse and the City Mouse mixed in with the comic heroism of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the exotic landscape photography of The Gods Must be Crazy. Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Hogan) is an Australian adventurer who agrees to an interview with Susan, a visiting reporter from New York (newcomer Linda Kozlowski...
Having never seen an escalator, you can imagine what he thinks of the bidet in his hotel room. Of course, Susan is forced to choose between her proper editor/boyfriend and the rugged Crocodile of her dreams, but Hogan, an appealing actor of sardonic understatement, gives this old hat plot new life. He plays Mick with a warmth and naivete which make all of his gaffes fun to watch, and his encounter with two prostitutes is a comic stand-out. "Crocodile Dundee" surely will not be remembered as one of history's finest films, but, thanks to Paul Hogan, it proves...