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...along with 15 other youths who hope to qualify in future years, spent four weeks at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. There they sharpened their skills with military-like drilling (reveille at 6:15 a.m., followed by seven hours of problem solving) under Brooklyn-born Coach Murray Klamkin, 60, of the University of Alberta...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Bill Murray, a comedian formerly in the cast of NBC-TV'S Saturday Night Live who went on to star in such films as Meatballs (1979) and the current Stripes; and Mickey Kelley, a staffer for Saturday Night Live; on Jan. 25; in New York City...
Private Benjamin, meet Meatballs. Bill Murray of Saturday Night Live, meet Harold Ramis, John Candy, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas of SCTV. Psycho from Taxi Driver, meet martial music from 1941. Tired moviegoer, meet tired moviemakers. And note: Murray, he of the choirboy face and pseudo-hip slouch, is convincing as a soldier who maneuvers his platoon into and out of World War III. Director Ivan Reitman is a canny merchant. He knows that the easy laughs are the surest, that teen-agers love to watch goofballs shape up without losing their shambling style, and that it doesn...
...movie provides good, escapist wishfulfillment. No matter how much Murray baits the sergeant, disregards authority and breaks the rules, everything comes out all right. There's even a shootout with Russians in Czechoslovakia which pits 40 Americans against 200 Russians in closerange combat with machine-guns, mortars, grenades and cannons--and nobody gets hurt...
...MOST OF the film, Murray is on his own as the comedian, with the rest of the cast combining to form a single gargantuan straight man. Veteran character actor Warren Oates grimaces his way through his role as the proverbial ornery sergeant. Ramis, as Murray's friend, manages one or two very funny scenes on his own, but for the most part simply provides a solid wall for Murray to bounce his own goofy lines off of. The only real problems with the film come when the minor characters try to join in the fun by grabbing some laughs...