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...were. But movies should not be judged on the manner of their promotion, and if this picture is not exactly high art, it is a well-made, quite intelligent piece of popular entertainment, containing a sensibly moral examination of how obsession with a celebrity can lead to mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Distant Love | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...porno video tapes. Predictably, their leader, a villain named Dirty Bob, manages to slip through some elaborate defenses and tracks McGee to his opulent houseboat, the Busted Flush. The result is one of MacDonald's King Kong vs. Godzilla confrontations that deliver a soul-satisfying amalgam of mayhem and justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...news of the shooting flashed around the world, many nations expressed sympathy for the President but predictably criticized the American tendency toward mayhem. "I pray your injuries are not serious," cabled Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt relayed his "deep horror," and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat his "extreme shock and sorrow." Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, said the attack "proves that violence is deep-rooted in U.S. soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...pervasive fear of robbery and mayhem threatens the way America lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curse of Violent Crime | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Kustow has chosen to stage this at a long table at the front of the stage, keeping our interest with visual mayhem but accentuating the fragmentary nature of the dialogue. Stephen Rowe and Tony Shalhoub, as Joe and Wes, try mightily to keep things going, but with little success. Some awkward pace changes contribute to the difficulty, and the act sags until Frederick Neumann, as the John Huston-like director John Bean, takes things over. Neumann shines as the horny, hearty old American ("It's a simple name--I am a simple man.") whose vision of the revolution comprises mostly...

Author: By Jonathon B. Propp, | Title: Myths, Movies and Men | 1/28/1981 | See Source »

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