Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Avildsen doesn't care about Stallone's jingo-juggernaut. "I felt the character wasn't developed much more," he says of subsequent Rockys. In Avildsen's two Karate Kid pictures, the characters have stayed closer to the earth, closer to the turf Avildsen understands. Cinematic integrity? "I think your integrity has a direct link to your check book," Avildsen says...
...daughter are completely overshadowed by the story's half-mad protagonist, serpentile in his stealthy pedophilia. The mother, meanwhile, is reduced to the stereotype of the hypochondriac nag, while the daughter--behind the violet mist of the poetic physical description--is no more than a cute, slightly buck-toothed kid on roller skates...
...after a bit). Maybe you thought I would switch caps for the Series and start chanting "Let's Go Mets." Not on your life. I'm a loyal New Yorker, to be sure, but the Mets are nothing to me. They didn't exist when I was a kid, and loyalties are shaped by those early years of splendor in the grass and glory in the flower...
Avildsen, whose directing credits include "The Karate Kid," "Joe" and "Neighbors," emphasized the practical side of Hollywood moviemaking. The director said he did not mind being overshadowed by the attention Stallone and other actors received, "as long as the bank gives me the credit...
...Sinatra and thought him "amusing because he's a skinny little bastard and his bones kind of rattle together." But the stories Kelley has assembled are too numerous and grubby to be passed off as the forgivable sins of an amusing scamp, or of a tough-but-decent slum kid who made good. During the 1968 filming of Lady in Cement, according to Producer's Assistant Michael Viner, a prostitute complained that Sinatra had asked her to stay for breakfast after an all-night party, and then used a knife and fork to eat an order of ham and eggs...