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Serial's only attempts at contemporaneity are buzz words and phrases of the '60s and '70s. Whenever possible, "mellow" or "hot tub" or "finding my space" are worked into the dialogue. Most of the major gags, however, betray the film's true sensibility by ridiculing big-breasted women and homosexuals. No actors or director could save this material. The cast and crew of Serial, largely recruited from television, do not even...
...Cubans apparently have been running a genetic experimentation program designed to produce basketball players as long as some of the cigars they smoke down there. Classics center Dave Coatsworth spent much playing time trying to persuade the 7-ft. 3-in. Cuban center, Felix "All-Mellow" Morales, that he wasn't a CIA operative--so would he please be careful where he put down his size 18 shoe...
Things over at Anderson Headquarters were far more...well, okay, they were mellow. John was there with the wife and kids, as at home among the college crowd as Reagan was among geriatrics, and he was...well, okay he was very pleased with the results, but more important he just wanted to get out of the hot T.V. lights, eat potato chips, and talk to some folks...
...tension, and hacks its way through a Gere/Hutton sex sequence. In one nice touch, though, the Gigolo voices have a stupid, vapid sound, a style of speech learned on the Venice boardwalk or a Malibu sundeck. But Schrader couldn't resist a Mozart organ opus as accompaniment for a mellow-dramatic finale...
...Theeeeere she is, Miss Ameeeerica." It won't be quite the same any more. Bert Parks, 65, for 25 years the mellow master of ceremonies whose rendition of that unguent ballad had become something of a late-summer tradition, has not been invited back for 1980's Miss America contest. Parks took the news hard: "I never thought they'd pull a trick like this. It's a little shabby, isn't it?" No reason was given for his ouster, nor was a successor announced. Some names have been dropped, such as those of Entertainer...