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...feelie in question is Captain EO, a 17-minute space fantasy with music and dance, which will be shown at the two Disney parks and, as the press kit trumpets, "nowhere else in the universe." But even if it were a dirt-bike movie that played only seedy drive-ins, EO would be notable for the conglomerate of megabuck talent that confected it. The executive producer is George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars trilogy. The director is Francis Ford Coppola, once Lucas' mentor as executive producer of American Graffiti, now switching roles with his former acolyte. The star...
...jury does nothing less than order the lawyer to be a knowing instrument of totally unethical and dishonest conduct," he protested. "Silence here is participation; it is cooperation with evil." Judge Shapiro held Rubin in criminal contempt and sentenced him to 30 days. Fully prepared, with underwear and shaving kit stuffed in his briefcase, Rubin last week heard Shapiro pack him off to jail. Undaunted, the lawyer arranged for a habeas corpus petition to be filed with the Florida Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, he was released on his own recognizance...
...floor to shield his eyes from the bright lighting required for TV, removing his shades only when he stood to address his colleagues and the camera. With tongue in cheek, Senator John Glenn of Ohio pledged, "I plan to do nothing different." Then he took out a makeup kit, dabbed at his forehead and smoothed his thinning hair. One of the younger and more telegenic Senators who sits at the back of the chamber, Albert Gore of Tennessee, complained that the yellow wall that serves as his TV backdrop looks like "a Greyhound bus terminal...
Fast-food architecture is coming full circle too. Two years ago, outside Chicago, the deconstructionist New York firm SITE built a sublime McDonald's. The basic kit of pieces was standard, but SITE made the whole restaurant seem to hover: brick walls are cantilevered up off the ground, the roof floats above the walls. Decadent, maybe, but delightful too. In heartland suburbia, the highest of high camp has thus been achieved. When kitsch icons like McDonald's come with their own built-in ironic critique, an epoch must...
...writer-director is, sure, a sentimental fantasy with just enough wild-party footage to keep the Porky's crowd from nodding off. But for teens in search of tips on language, behavior and all the right moves, Sixteen Candles functions as a therapeutic documentary, a sort of survival kit of '80s cool. And for the rest of us, it offers a fine old time at the movies...