Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This mood is encouraged by the story. It posits a dreadfully shy and innocent Christie hopelessly in love with her bumptiously philandering husband and so distraught over his affair with his secretary that she follows the woman to the spa. There the mystery writer plots, as neatly as she would one of her novels, a crime that will 1) put her out of her romantic misery and 2) wreak suitable vengeance on her husband and his mistress. This is as plausible as any other explanation of Christie's disappearance, though no more persuasive than any other that might...
...final burst of gore, The Warriors offers a hallucinatory vision of New York's deadliest nocturnal horrors. Hill creates creepy poetry out of menacing shadows, glinting switchblades, garish graffiti and charging subway trains. If enough people see this movie, it could sabotage single-handed the "I Love New York" advertising campaign...
Unfortunately, sheer visual zip is not enough to carry the film; it drags from one scuffle to the next. Deborah Van Valkenburgh, as the love interest of the Warriors' War Chief (Michael Beck), provides a few libidinous moments; a lesbian disco dance scene has its peculiar charms. But The Warriors is not lively enough to be cheap fun or thoughtful enough to be serious. Walter Hill, the talented director of Hard Times, the 1975 boxing movie, badly needs a direction to his career...
...Linda Goodman's Love Signs. Goodman...
Sonia and Vernon fall in love, or are finessed into it by Simon's engagingly backhanded ploys. They collaborate blissfully, move in together and then face a period of maladjustment. Away from his piano, Vernon is a bundle of neuroses and almost inarticulate about his deepest feelings. Candid beyond discretion, Sonia seems to be carrying a guttering torch for a phone nemesis named Leon who calls at all hours, preferably 3 a.m. After some murky psychologizing about the schizophrenic difficulties of living and working together, the pair split and, copybook fashion, kiss and make...