Word: howards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PARENTHOOD Directed by Ron Howard...
...movie does not linger too long over any moment or mood, and it permits characters to transcend type, offering a more surprising range of response to events. Martin, for example, gets to do distraction as well as obsession, and Robards is allowed sentiment as well as cynicism. Because Ron Howard, who was responsible for Cocoon, has a talent for ensemble hubbub, there may be more good, solid performances in this unlikely context than in any other movie this year...
...contrast, says spokesperson Howard P. Ramseur, the Rainbow's goal is a little more basic: to bring new people into the political process...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
...said that the film was inspired by incidents of racial violence in New York over the past decade: the Howard Beach incident three years ago, when a young Black man was chased onto a highway by a gang of white thugs and killed by a motorist; the death of an elderly Black woman Eleanor Bumpurs, who was shot by New York police; and the death of Black graffiti artist Michael Stewart, who was killed in the custody of six New York police officers...