Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SEQUENCES THEMSELVES suffer from the same illogic; the viewer is constantly tempted to borrow a page from Pierre's book and shots "So what--" at the pointless unless on stage. A glaring example is the treatment of Pierre himself (Rick Reynolds), beloved in book form as the kid who never said anything to anybody except "I don't care" and eventually I don't cared himself into getting gobbled up by a lion. This version, by casting a body-suited women (Linda Hammott) as the doggerel in just the right suggestive murmur, manages to transform this grisly little sage into...
Equally frustrating are the scenes spotlighting Rosie, for Schmeiser's electric performance is filled with signs pointing nowhere. Script and actress both provide flashes from time of a fascinating, absolutely believable personality--the imperious kid everyone knuckled under to in childhood, who planned the games and made up an the rules, whose whims were law. But from this take the part wanders into aimlessness. Like the rest of the cast, Schmeiser is forced to superimpose grown-up sexuality on otherwise recognizable eight-year-old dialogue; what's more, between pelvic gyrations, she and cohort Kathy (Susannah Rabb) are saddled with...
...murky image we outsiders have of the land of tinsel. Goldman's new book, the autobiography/gossip/self-help Adventures in the Screen Trade comes at a strange point in his career. Although he's had a hand in some of the silver screen's finest fun-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Hot Rock, Marathon Man, for instance-his last critical and commercial hit. All the President's Men appeared seven years ago. Thus much of this insider's view sounds like crybaby bitching from someone who feels like last year's model...
...what truly keeps Goldman are the Heroes, people who transcend the crap, who can still impress and awe him the way Tarzan Finds a Son did when he was the only kid Highland Park, Illinois crazy enough to see the same movie twice. For various reasons, among his heroes are Oliver, Robert Wagner, Bob Woodward, Richard Attenborough, but most of all, Paul Newman...
...very easy, really. If every once in a while some poor kid gets the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck and can't breathe for a few minutes, HCA or whoever owns the hospital just raises its rates and shoots off $119 million to the unfortunate parents. And what happened to Andrea Ferris was of course an accident, probably as upsetting to the doctor who performed the operation as to the Ferrises themselves (at least one would hope...