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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might even have been meant to parody the insufferable delivery scenes in other movies where everything comes out all right. But joke or no joke, how can anyone dissociate him/herself from the all-too-real pain? How can anyone with the slightest parental urge--or human decency--laugh at a delivery that ends in bloody death? And, given that laughter is a complex entity and could signal distress as well as pleasure, why was the reaction to the movie overwhelmingly, ecstatically favorable...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...might even have been meant to parody the insufferable delivery scenes in other movies where everything comes out all right. But joke or no joke, how can anyone dissociate him/herself from the all-too-real pain? How can anyone with the slightest parental urge--or human decency--laugh at a delivery that ends in bloody death? And, given that laughter is a complex entity and could signal distress as well as pleasure, why was the reaction to the movie overwhelmingly, ecstatically favorable...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...might even have been meant to parody the insufferable delivery scenes in other movies where everything comes out all right. But joke or no joke, how can anyone dissociate him/herself from the all-too-real pain? How can anyone with the slightest parental urge--or human decency--laugh at a delivery that ends in bloody death? And, given that laughter is a complex entity and could signal distress as well as pleasure, why was the reaction to the movie overwhelmingly, ecstatically favorable...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Savalas. "She's discovered the world," says Competitor Jane Feinberg with the most delicate hint of sarcasm. Marion Dougherty, who has been in the business 31 years, gave Warren Beatty his first TV role, in the old Kraft Theater. Says she: "He was a terrible actor then-we laugh about it now-and totally charming." Dougherty also turned up Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Stalmaster's finds include Jon Voight (four lines in Hour of the Gun), James Caan (a silent reaction in Irma La Douce) and Gilda Radner (an other silent bit in The Last Detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Peter Sellers is dead [Aug. 4], but his unique creations-Dr. Strangelove, Inspector Clouseau, Chance the gardener -will live on. Generations not yet born will hail Sellers as a comic genius in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd. Sellers made us laugh. What better epitaph can a man have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1980 | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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