Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Astronaut Geologist Dr. Harrison Schmitt seems to have learned something about memory as well as about the moon when he took his lunar stroll last year: "My moon walk was so brief that few impressions were implanted in my mind. Every now and again I start to tell somebody about something I saw on the moon, and I realize I'm telling about something I saw in a picture...
...PAPER MOON...
Starting with The Last Picture Show, Bogdanovich has become more detached from his work, less committed and more casually manipulative. Like Picture Show, like last year's What's Up, Doc?, his latest effort, Paper Moon, is ruthlessly mechanical, a frivolous and cursory piece of work that never even challenges, much less engages, its director's best abilities. The film has no perceptible feeling of any kind...
Publicity posters liken her to Shirley Temple. Her perky performance in Paper Moon is being compared with the classic childhood performances of Jackie Coogan and Jackie Cooper. Still, such megapraise does not entirely please nine-year-old Tatum O'Neal. "It's not the funnest thing in the world being called a boy," she laments in her husky voice. It was not all that much fun making a movie either. "I thought you could make a movie in one day with maybe four hours of work, because you can see it in two hours," she reasoned. Instead...
...Barbie doll wife and his box-full of Barbie doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us: the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts, on nights when the moon comes too close...