Word: moon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moon Over Parador...
...might expect Moon Over Parador to be a cross between Down and Out in Beverly Hills and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Parador director Paul Mazursky and star Richard Dreyfuss worked together in Beverly Hills, while Parador's other stars, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga, appeared together in Spider Woman. Also, Parador, like Beverly Hills, means to be a comedy of social and cultural clashes, while using the political instability of a Latin American dictatorship as a backdrop, like Spider Woman...
Despite its potential for satire, Moon Over Parador doesn't leave you with any significant social statement about Latin American politics. Still, it is funny enough not to disappoint you or leave you with anything to moon over...
...skies guided by electronics from distant command posts. Pursued in his off-hours, his hobby is part of an industry that is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars and has benefited from advances in miniaturized electronics, motors and light, high- strength materials spawned in the race to the moon. "I like pushing the edge in flight and technology," says Baugher, a chip off Jimmy Doolittle, "and I can walk away from my crashes...
Running on Empty finds home truths in the drama of a family of '60s radicals turned fugitives. -- Moon over Parador: Evita was funnier...