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...levels of intimacy in the film's central relationship while maintaining a strong, easy and persuasively naturalistic stride. With fine impartiality, Patrick has provided good roles for Burt Young and Tony Musante among the Mafiosi, for Jack Kehoe and Geraldine Page as a crooked cop and his adoring mom, and for Kenneth McMillan, playing an aging safecracker with a sad personal life, who provides a note of weary realism. Under Stuart Rosenberg's intelligently permissive direction, they provide the film with a rich variety of eccentric life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ethics Among the Ethnics | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

Among the waves of mortarboards at commencements across the U.S. this year, several, as usual, bore signs and greetings. One at the University of California at Berkeley offered a proud-and significant-variation on the customary HI, MOM. It read: HI, I AM MOM. The message aptly symbolized the presence of older generations among 1984's 1.37 million graduates, Mario Savio, 41, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964, finally earned a physics degree, summa cum laude, from San Francisco State University. At Lehman College of City University of New York, Joseph Lipner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words of Hope and Warning | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...funkiest fable. Originally, Dante's gremlins were neither intelligent nor impishly charming. "They liked to eat," he says. "That's all they did. They would eat people's legs off, chew people's fingers. They ate Billy's dog. They killed Billy's mom, and her head flew down the Starrs. It was kind of grim." In its final form Gremlins is "soft" enough to have won a PG rating. Says Spielberg, who has managed to make three horror or science-fiction movies (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, E. T.) in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...through the Magic Kingdom on at least three outings during the next month. Of course, it takes an odd duck to be fooled by a fellow in a funny suit. So the Disney folks painstakingly trained the Pekins to accept the costumed canard as the next best thing to Mom. Last week Donald proudly led his faithful followers past squealing crowds of early-morning guests to a giant birthday cake decorated with peas, corn and carrot candles. Unfortunately, the web-footed wonders were too busy quacking up to go for the goodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 21, 1984 | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...short, the 128 unseeded players shouldn't buy mom and dad those plane tickets to L.A. Not yet, at least...

Author: By Frank M.K. Tse, | Title: U.S. Olympic Tennis Team Tryouts Next Test for Three Harvard Netmen | 5/18/1984 | See Source »

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