Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are Russian spies, a kidnaped British scientist, a Pakistani Robin Hood, a Soho gay bar and some madness in a Bavarian castle. All of which is typical movie fare for fans of intrepid Inspector Clouseau, the bumbling gumshoe played by Peter Sellers. After a trio of previous successes (The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, The Return of the Pink Panther), Sellers and Director Blake Edwards have teamed up for another round of Clouseau capers with The Pink Panther Strikes Again. This time Sellers' co-star is Actress Lesley-Anne Down, formerly Georgina in the Upstairs, Downstairs...
Robin and Marian. Sappy and great. Robin Hood and Little John come back from the Crusades and try to recapture the life they left behind in Nottingham. Sean Connery (Robin) is getting better looking every year and Audrey Hepburn's (Marian) return to movies was long overdue. We saw this one at Radio City in New York, but we're betting it will hold up even without the Rockettes' special Easter Show...
What goes on at teenage rock concerts is not funny. In fact, sometimes it's a crime. Like when you see little sixteen-year-old girls who could be your sister going there with some hood who could just as well have just robbed your house...
...tends to remind the reader of a remark attributed to the father of analysis: that while a cigar was a phallus it was also a cigar. The humor of Sneezy, Dopey and Doc, the excursions of Hansel cannot be reduced to Freudian simples. The wolf in Little Red Riding Hood is more than the "potentially destructive tendencies of the id"; he is a wolf as well. Of course a child walks in a giant's world. Of course boys and girls dream of transformations into wondrous and powerful creatures, i.e., adults. Of course the tears and truths...
...games. When a White Sox batter lofted one into the parking lot along the first base line of Payne Field in Sarasota, Pirates first baseman Willie Stargell turned to umpire Nestor Chylak and casually remarked, "Somebody got a nod on his car. Did it hit the top or the hood...