Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film reflects life, it can also help shape it. Actor Paul Winfield (Sounder, White Dog) recalls growing up in Seattle in the 1940s. "All the blacks would sit in the movie theater balcony," he says. "Nigger heaven, they used to call it. Then one night we saw Stanley Kramer's Home of the Brave, the first picture we'd seen in which a black was not a Stepin Fetchit, and we resolved never to sit in the balcony again...
...Benton, 51, who wrote and directed Kramer vs. Kramer among other films, evocation is not quite autobiography. The events in Edna Spalding's life, for instance, may be based on what happened to his great-grandmother, but her character contains aspects of his mother, his wife and, as he has carefully pointed out, some of Sally Field's background. The same is true of Glover's Moze, who developed out of a black man who worked for Benton's family, but whose magnetic presence is a tribute to the performer. Similarly, Malkovich's blind boarder...
High-performance Japanese imports, including the Honda Prelude and Mazda 626, are in demand. But some of the most popular models are in short supply, since Japanese manufacturers have agreed to quotas on their shipments to the U.S. That gives dealers a chance to make tidy profits. Kramer Motors Honda in Santa Monica, Calif., for example, adds a $2,000 markup to the $6,300 sticker price of the subcompact Honda...
...opening scenes, Samantha awakes on her birthday. Instead of the usual birthday bounty, however, Samantha finds that her brother Mike (Justin Henry of Kramer vs Kramerfame) has locked her out of the bathroom and her mother (Carlin Glynn) has forgotten both her daughter's lunch and her daughter's birthday. What's more, Samantha doesn't feel quite as different as she'd like; as she looks in the mirror at her angular form she says disappointedly, "I look exactly the same as I have since summer, utterly forgettable...
...Scott-Laddin (H) d. Kramer-Freedman...