Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elmo's Fire is as unphotogenic as our big-toothed friend from Central Europe, it is also as charmingly seductive. The ever messed-up rich kid, the starry-eyed boys with love fixation, the political idealist turned proto-Yuppie: they are not Jungian archetypes or timeless characters of world literature, but they are, for some of us, too painfully familiar...
FRIGHT NIGHT (Sack 57) and YEAR OF THE DRAGON (Sack 57) are despite their opposite positions on the budget spectrum, equally affective failures. "You have to believe for that to work," the vampire-on-the-block says of the Cross held out before him. Double ditto, as Dewitt's kid brother says, for powerful horror and drama: you gotta believe...
...putative heroes of these two bloodbaths--the kid who cried vampire too much and the I-eat-steal-wontons tough cop in Dragon look and feel so ... phony. More to amateurish acting in Fright Night and more to Mickey Rouke's pretentious acting in Dragon, both movies convey that condescending sense of cinematic closed-captioning for the slow...
Zucker's back, talking trash as usual, and the new kid on the block--staff writer Bob Cunha--knows the local scene and could be the man to beat...
...west side of Chicago to see a girlfriend. As they approached the back entrance of a graffiti-scarred tenement, a group of youths taunted them. Delfonic approached tentatively, then turned and ran. One of the youths casually drew a .22-cal. handgun and shot him. "We had a good kid coming along," said Delfonic's grandmother. Now that he was becoming a man, she had gone out and bought him a new suit. "I had no way of knowing he would be buried in it," she said...