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None of Boston's principal ballet companies will be performing this week. But a group called the Ballet Dance Theater will perform in Sanders Theater this Sunday, at 3:00 and 7:30. And two young ladies named Susan Sachs and Laura Fly will dance on the JFK Federal Building Plaza at noon, Oct.3...
Danny and Bernie (Peter Kovner and Joseph Wilkins) are two office buddies who wind up competing for the wildest story and cruelest screw, as their two female counterparts, Deborah and Joan (Deborah Strang and Laura Hepner) feed on each other's disillusionment...
There might have been a decent picture here. Set in the high-fashion demimonde of Manhattan, the film has an intriguing heroine in Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway), a chic photographer who shoots in Helmut Newton's sadomasochistic style. The film's premise, though farfetched, also has possibilities. Laura, it turns out, is a psychic whose nightmare visions of ghoulish murders actually come true. But the script doesn't develop its basic materials. The aesthetic and ethical issues raised by Laura's photographs are never worked into the story; the heroine's psychic powers have...
While forestalling the climax, the film makers try to amuse us with voyeuristic glimpses of their heroine's glamorous world. They don't get even these details right. In Laura Mars, all fashion models are bimbos who speak in kootchy-koo voices. A photo exhibit opening at a SoHo gallery attracts more crowds and press coverage than a movie premiere...
Director Irvin Kershner's style is no less out-of-touch. He accompanies the eye-gouging murders with creepy music and lighting. The film's obligatory romantic interlude, between Laura and a detective (Tommy Lee Jones), is set to violins. The acting is out of a '50s B movie. In the effort to create as many suspects as possible, Kershner has directed most of his cast to come on as twitchy psychopaths. Brad Dourif, playing an ex-con chauffeur, manages to seem even more bonkers here than he did as an inmate in One Flew over...