Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening scenes of Paper Moon, his newest film, he shows so stark and mundane a churchyard funeral that it is impossible to project anything personal into it. There is no toehold to stand on, which means that the scene must be accepted for its celluloid self, and your subjectivity abrogated. Once he has done that you are glued to his films, and he takes you across whatever elusive terrain he chooses...
When it's at its best Paper Moon comes across like a country wanderer's ballad, replete with lyrics about lonesome roads and hard times, and the resonance of Midwestern vistas and old time hotels. And indeed, Paper Moon is often at its best. Ryan O'Neal and his real life ten-year-old daughter, Tatum, successfully play a May-December couple who travel through depression Kansas trying to scrape by until they pull off a big enough con game to retire for life. Their travels are like an up-river adventure, each bend offering an old town to back...
When Paper Moon lags it is because of the elder O'Neal. The innocence that made him the modern American lover in Love Story and Peyton Place is a confusing image in the tough times of depression Kansas. It's hard to get at what he is or what he feels. He is a leading man without character, like Charlton Heston would be without physical presence. He seems to nullify every forward step he takes...
Within its limited scope, Paper Moon is remarkable for the power and precision of its images. Bogdanovich takes small ideas and small characters and blows them into beautiful pictures that stay true to themselves. The result is mostly sentiment, but of a kind powerful enough to evoke important responses without spelling them...
Like their predecessors in space, the Skylab astronauts did experience some weakening of their heart and other muscles, caused by 28 days of weightlessness. While most of the Apollo astronauts recovered their strength about 48 hours after their trips to the moon (which averaged about eleven days), the Skylab crew-notably Physician-Astronaut Kerwin -took a few days longer. But doctors said that the delay was expectable. "They are in better condition than we had hoped for," reported Cardiologist Robert L. Johnson...