Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jack Klugman as a divorced father) and Tough Cookies (Robby Benson as a Chicago police detective) are about as dumb and hackneyed as the genre gets. CBS's Fast Times, though based on a smart, funny movie about high school life, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, is nearly as lame. The problems start with the casting. As Spicoli, the spaced-out surfer played hilariously in the film by Sean Penn, Dean Cameron projects nothing more than a 5-o'clock shadow; a baby-faced Sean Penn lookalike, Patrick Dempsey, plays Damone, the school's cool con artist. Bummer...
...woman who has challenged the lame but still powerful Marcos machine has few formal qualifications for her dragon-slaying role. Corazon Cojuangco Aquino is nonetheless fully at home with the local perquisites of privilege and authority. Her family and that of her martyred husband Benigno are charter members of the Philippine political and economic oligarchy that was pushed aside by Marcos. Corazon Aquino's father was a sugar baron, and her maternal grandfather was a Philippine Senator. One of her cousins, Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., is reckoned to be the President's closest economic crony. He is controller of a national...
...Reagan showed yet again why it is foolhardy to underestimate his persuasive powers and prematurely proclaim him a lame duck. Despite the obituaries written after the Republican revolt six days earlier, the most far- reaching tax-reform plan since World War II passed the House last week and was sent to the Senate, which will take it up in 1986. The surprising bipartisan triumph by Reagan and Democratic Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski came during the prolonged and hectic finale of a year otherwise distinguished chiefly by the achievement of new levels of fecklessness in dealing with...
...this, but Co-Writer Aykroyd has again neglected to give himself a character to play. So this Road to Armageddon plays more like Crosby and Hopeless. Director John Landis achieves a brisk and funny basic- training sequence, then follows the plot into political irresponsibility. After Hollywood's glut of lame-brained right-wing movies, viewers may welcome a comedy that portrays American military intelligence as a contradiction in terms. But even conspiracy buffs deserve better than this. So do lovers of lowball farce...
...another number, Craig L. Smith and Rosemary Fei dance a tango to Boulevard of Broken Dreams, in which Smith wears a shirt of silver ruffles. "I always dreamed of wearing silver lame, and not many 1-L's get the chance," Smith said...