Word: moviedom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 26, 9 p.m.). Six Viet Nam POWs, released 17 years after the war's end, discover that sinister Government forces were behind their capture. Steve Railsback, Stacy Keach and Keith Carradine co-star in this thriller, the USA cable network's first venture into made-for-TV moviedom...
...better in Apocalypse, Now, but it's hard to imagine any actor carrying this role off as well, or with more energy. Brad Dourif, babbling Billy Bibbit of Cuckoo's Nest fame, has a cameo, looking like John Cougar on acid. And Dean Stockwell lipsyncs his way to moviedom history as the super-suave...
...Hollywood these days, writing the screenplays for three Spielberg films is probably the next best thing to being Spielberg himself. That makes 27-year-old Chris Columbus the hottest item since edible underwear in moviedom's town of renown...
...FINALLY back, Cutting hits way through the saccharine fallout-ridden movies of a Steven Spielberg summer, Mad Max has adventure and wry humor that puts Indiana Jones in the back seat. He is truly a welcome respite in these dog days of moviedom, when the only other adventurer on the screen is the barely articulate, militantly mad Stallone...
...Goldman's most virulent critics, the New Yorker's Pauline Kael, hates his scripts for evoking a "boys'-book, rites-of-manhood universe," replete with macho camaraderie and blue-eyed heroics. She's going to hate Adventures too: Goldman just as simplistically divides real-life moviedom into Heroes and Villains...