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...easy movie to write or direct, but Robert Benton has succeeded in treading the fine line between washed-out soap opera and documentary. The result is a rare treat--a film that does not preach but makes its point, a film that makes you feel but does not jerk, a film that does not pretend to have all the answers...
...Spielberg's 1941 is the surprise flop, Carl Reiner's The Jerk, starring Comedian Steve Martin, is the unexpected hit of the season. It cost approximately $10 million, including promotion, and so far has grossed $32 million, with as much success in small towns as in big cities. "People like Steve Martin, and it is a funny film," says Ron Goldman, a co-owner of the Washington, D.C.-based K.B. theater chain, expressing an opinion not shared by most of the critics. He adds: "Thank God the critics aren't quite as important as they used...
...UNITED STATES is at a crossroads in its foreign policy: it can either re-subscribe to the principles that brought two decades of cold war, Korea and Vietnam, or try something new. The old policies have brought nothing but failure; if, for once, the U.S. shuns a knee-jerk military response, it will both salvage its foreign policy goals and leave open a path to world peace...
...films, dashing French Movie Star Jean-Paul Belmondo customarily wins the girl. This time, however, the 46-year-old actor lost her to a younger man, and after she vanished had to console himself by dancing le jerk with someone else. The girl was dark-eyed Daughter Florence, 20, whom Belmondo gave away in traditional style as the beaming father of the bride. Florence's husband is American Public Relations Man Larry-Neal Andrews, 30. The couple will settle in Seattle, not one of Papa Jean-Paul's watering holes...
...subtly, from all other Rembrandts. In the meantime, the clichés of art appreciation-"masterpiece," "genius," "deep humanity," "quality," "values" and the rest of that fustian-become, in the face of a spiraling market, a dead language, analogous to advertising copy and producing the same kind of knee-jerk reverence in a brutalized culture of unfulfillable desire...