Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gentlemen spares the obvious potential for social statements in the black and Puerto Rican casting, limiting trendiness to the score. Shakespeare's plot remains largely intact, with its orderly parallels between pairs of individuals. There are the skeptics towards love, Julia and Valentine, and those who use seductive wiles to break them, Proteus and Silvia. There are the two masters and the two servants, each couple bound in friendship though capable of deceit. And then there's the dog Crab, who qualifies for both categories. The mutt is not only ungrateful for the constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies...
...record, Kristofferson leads 100 fellow truckers in a madcap chase -with 20 or so police cars in pursuit. Up in the cab with "Rubber Duck" is his new girl, played by Actress Ali MacGraw, who is making her first movie since The Getaway in 1973. The longhaired Cliffie of Love Story even got a special hairdo for the film. So when the wind comes whipping across the highway, Ali manages to keep every curl of her new bob in place...
...ship called the Titanic. There were Richard's financial problems, Mrs. Bridges' pots of tea, Hudson's growing dismay at a changing world, and Hazel's pained middle-class presence in a household of extremes. There were also suffragettes and soldiers, flappers and footmen, love and death. It was grand soap opera, of course, but it sandblasted as often as it bubbled. It gave up more vivid characters, through plotted deaths and departures, than most TV series ever introduce. To all concerned, Ta. Paul Gray
...characters, however, smolder without burning. Fiona Cleary spends an extended lifetime being a "very unhappy woman" because of the married man she loved and lost in her youth. Daughter Meggie spends her life moping over her love for the devilishly handsome Ralph de Bricassart. One woman who sees him muses: "He's the handsomest chap I've ever seen! An archbishop, no less!" She cannot restrain herself from adding, "What a father you'd have made, Father!" Alas, Ralph is wedded to the Roman Catholic Church. He loves Meggie but he cannot throw away his vows. Meggie...
...filigree light she usually casts on her characters seems dimmed. Simms displays a kind of rock lyricism, but he is a figure without impact. "This person," he says of his girl friend, "is bound to have something to do with me. I mean it ain't love, but what is it? Worse than love, harder to break. Like we had to wear each other through, work something out, I don't know...