Word: kids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...format devised as an upshot of this bit of pop-psych market research pits He-Man's Heroic Warriors against the forces of evil every weekday on 166 television stations. In each half-hour segment, He-Man starts out as a mere wimp of a kid named Adam. When he raises his sword and utters the magic incantation, Adam turns into a hero who looks like Prince Valiant with Arnold Schwarzenegger's physique. Since the animated cartoon premiered 15 months ago, it has gained 9 million viewers, most of them boys ages four to seven...
...FLAMINGO KID...
There is the sweet air of an authentic memoir about The Flamingo Kid, which recollects an adolescent experience in gentle but nonsoporific tranquillity. The time is 1963, and Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is a poor Brooklyn boy working for the summer at an upper-middle-class Long Island beach club. There he meets a car dealer (Richard Crenna), slightly shady and blatantly materialistic, who tries to tempt him away from the good values of his decent dad (Hector Elizondo), a plumber whose trade may be humble but whose spirit is not. There is originality and poignancy in Neal Marshall...
...decides, he can no longer write; the whole thing is hopeless. The novella peters out as messily as could be wished, without even a period to nail down its last sentence: "... maybe we'll go to the bottom of the page get my daily quota done come on, kid, you can do three more lousy lines...
...acting is uniformly remarkable, given the dramatic quicksand in which the cast is drowning. Richard Gere avoids getting by on his gooooooood looks and instead makes the most of his dramatic moments playing a good kid shocked and fascinated at the dirty dealings of the underworld. Diane Lane just the right mix of street-survivor and sensitivity, making her an inspiring and sympathetic character...