Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...referred to in the title of the new album is, he says, "an escape from fear." If Jeffreys seems to be more haunted than he should be, that may also be because he got a double dose of the fears. That's a lot, even for a mystery kid...
...violated one of the conventions of the racing world by brashly predicting victory for his once obscure colt: A new coat of paint might spiff up Pleasant Colony's stable, but no amount of maintenance will transform Johnny Campo into a gentleman. A combative New York City street kid who worked his way up, Campo is loud, untidy and embarrassingly blunt...
...rarities, a sequel that readily surpasses the original. This is not, perhaps, a task requiring Kryptonic levels of wit and wisdom, because the initial effort was more than a little crude. The film makers suffered from a deep insecurity about what to take seriously, what they could afford to kid around with in updating the pop legend. Whether in derision or in a desperate desire to get laughs, the picture seemed to be running around with its tongue stuck out all the time. Now it is back where it belongs, tucked firmly in cheek. The result is a stylish, well...
...these people have contributed to the creation of something that is increasingly hard to find these days-an entertainment that actually achieves a near weightless state. It is unfair to burden such a work with excesses of praise. Suffice it to say that Superman II is a movie no kid need be ashamed to take his parents...
...eyed or winsome in one more movie comedy. Comedy is a taxonomic term here, not evaluative. The only people laughing at Lewis' first film released since 1970 are in the movie-supporting players earning their keep by pampering the star-director-screenwriter. Jer, 55, is still the goony kid from the '50s, talking while eating a doughnut, parading in drag, leading a children's crusade through a Florida shopping mall. Hardly Working has grossed $10 million at the box office, in part because parents are taking tots to see "the original Jerk." They find themselves attending...