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The high quality of the script is matched by every aspect of the production. Despite his limited budget, Director Ronald F. Maxwell has not stinted on important details: he shot the war scenes on location in Europe and enlisted Broadway Choreographer Donald Saddler and Burlesque Comic Joey Faye to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dream Girl | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

There was never anything small about the feast of entertainment offered either. For a ticket that never got higher than $5, the hall offered its customer not merely a movie but performances by a 75-member symphony orchestra, a resident corps de ballet, visiting vocalists and instrumentalists, and zealous sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Shrine of Showbigness Goes Down | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Correspondent James Willwerth has covered war in Saigon and peace (almost as harrowing) in the streets of New York City. Last week he was on his new beat in Hollywood, but his subjects were presumably still tough: Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood. "Covering illusion, I suspect, is going to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 9, 1978 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

The results are excruciatingly flat. Wilder has little talent for imitating Brooks' mad comic style, no matter how diligently he tries. Though his films have not yet descended to the puerile level of Marty Feldman's recent Brooks knockoff, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, they contain no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dim Homage to a Comic Master | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

It is not so much out of optimism as out of fear that Americans refuse to deal with the energy crisis [Nov. 21]. We are just not willing to acknowledge scarcity. The frontier is gone. Abundance and economic growth do not reflect current realities. Let us face those realities, rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1977 | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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