Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That Scheper. The kid is just crazy, you know...
After all, here he was, The Champ, playing in the finals of the Boston Open against the Harvard kid, Desaulniers, heir apparent to his squash throne, no less, and some referee was going to deny him his right to swing a racquet...
...variations of the same film--Bogart, Gable, Redford, Eastwood--Nicholson strives to delve into the human consciousness in unethical ways, and makes you love him for it. Killer eyes. Killer grin. Lady killer. Killer. But somehow a hell of a hero. Whether he's Bad-ass Buddusky fiving a kid his last breath of freedom, J.J. Gittes investigating a roller-coaster mystery, Bobby Dupea trying to shed his meaningless skin, or George Hansen smoking his first joint, Nicholson has found that inner peace and worldly violence are often inextricable...
...kitchen apparati and sit transfixed as horrific gameshows prance across the T.V. Kevin retreats to his room, amidst toy soldiers, cardboard castles, and plastic spaceships, reading about Agamemnon's methods of brutality. Not simply another middle-aged prepubescent a la Justin Henry and Gary Coleman, he is a real kid, untainted and imaginative. Warnock's lack of acting ability adds to Kevin's believability...
...struggles and has to be restrained. O, the wrath of an angry midget! He is acting over his head. It is too sad to be comical and too comical to be affecting, but the film's moralizing tone demands he be taken seriously. Maybe that's a jump a kid can make, but it's trying for anyone else. Straining, also, is some of the "suspense" lumbering across the screen, such as an elaborate, impossible escape from a cage floating in a void...