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...Forty-Niners began. It must have started some time this summer, though, because when we returned to school this fall, gone were the posters of California surfers, Hawaiian sunsets and her beloved golden retriever. In their place were Forty Niner team schedules, individual pictures of the players, and a monstrous poster of the team in its full splendor. Forty-Niner pennants decorated her bulletin board, and Sunday afternoons were devoted to tracking down the Forty-Niner results, preempting all other television shows if the team happened to be buzzing among the New England television circuits. We shook our heads...
...that the cosmos is "a fluke on the largest possible scale." It exploded from a protoatom that could not have existed; it pulses on borrowed energy as aberrantly as the subatomic particle that violates, for a nanosecond, physical laws. After 18 billion years or so, the universe's "monstrous debt" may come due at any time. Tichy figures out a way to repay it and make everything much nicer in the process, but his plan is altered by a satanic trio of laboratory workers before it is put into effect. The awful result is what now exists, everywhere. Tichy...
...that guttural "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," his power is unbelievable. So much of Apocalypse Now is unbelievable; the jungle, the eerie lights of the encampments, the unreal G.I. show, Wagner pouring out of choppers. Francis Ford Coppola comes so close to coaxing this monstrous myth into flight. Yet, at the end he fails because he abandons it. Making myth isn't enough for Coppola, he has to lay bare Evil. But a behemoth--like Marlon Brando, fingering his pate in semi-darkness and blubbering out The Hollow Men isn't Evil. Conrad knew that Evil...
This is The Wizard of Oz for the '80s, alright. The Pythonic theme--nothing you know is sacred or even really there--suddenly seems a huge, monstrous thing to impose on kids like Kevin; he is left with only a sackful of Polaroids and two piles of ashes where his authoritative parents once stood. Gilliam leaves us with Black Humor when all along his theme had been gallantry and inquisitiveness. The guest stars have their fun, the midgets get back their divine employment. But Kevin is on his own in the world, with only a stack of postcards--enough...
...joins his father's floundering dress-making company. After a disastrous first day on the job, his father (Jack Warden) tells him he needs to "get laid," which he promptly does, by Lira. The only trouble is that Lira is married to Mr. Eddie (Richard Kiel), a mean and monstrous loan shark who takes over Fine Fashions. The predictable mayhem ensues, during which young Fine learns how to "be a man," so that by the end of the film he is suave, confident and married, and heard uttering such understatements as "This has been a tremendous growth experience...