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Director Kleiser (responsible for Blue Lagoon and Grease among other monumental celluloid accomplishments) has chosen a fascinating backdrop for a film. In addition, the Dionysean ambience of the place, if sensitively explored, would be an interesting subject for folks who think that the Cape of the Hamptons are the cat's pajamas. Summer Lovers, however, is nothing more than a sloppily arranged series of brief glimpses of an island paradise, seen through a camera constantly swooping for 180-degree panoramas and zooming from close-ups of sweat-filled navels to post card spots of the entire rocky coast...
...answer is a) dress-up night on the Blue Lagoon, b) an air-conditioning breakdown at Studio 54, or c) a modeling session for Harper's Bazaar. The question, of course, is what prompted Brooke Shields to slip into a Geoffrey Beene tuxedo bathing suit? Come to think of it, who cares why she did it? Having turned 17 last week, Brooke, the lovely duckling, has clearly grown into a long, lean swan. Later this year she embarks on Sahara, another splendor-in-the-sand epic in which she will play, for the first time, a woman...
...especially so when we know the title character is not borrowed from anyone's list of the great books, but from Weird Tales, a pulp magazine of the 1930s, and owes his continued life to comic books and paperback originals. Nostalgia for creatures from the black lagoon of adolescent fantasy, even a certain wry affection, is permissible; the lugubrious sobriety John Milius brings to Conan the Barbarian...
...tumbling brown locks, the widow's peak, the natural eyebrows, the full lips, the dimple on the right cheek. They are all there, only smaller. Much, much smaller. For those who loved the movies (The Blue Lagoon, Endless Love) and bought the Calvins, it is now time for the next artistic level: the Brooke Shields doll. Beginning in April, LJN Toys will flood toy stores with some 2 million Barbie-size, $12 replicas of Brookie in a hot-pink sweaterdress, ribbed tights and white plastic cowboy boots. LJN paid Shields, 16, $1 million for the privilege, and she dutifully...
...motion picture division since 1979, is a sharp-eyed budget watcher in an era when studios spend $10 million on average per film and must earn back nearly three times that much just to break even. Columbia's recent big moneymakers include Kramer vs. Kramer, The Blue Lagoon and Stir Crazy. Among the TV hits it distributes are Hart to Hart, Fantasy Island and Barney Miller. Says Roy Furman, a leading film industry analyst: "Under Price, Columbia has had a greater percentage of hits on less cost per picture than any other studio...