Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national product?the nation's output of goods and services, adjusted for inflation ?rose at an annual rate of 8.7%. That rate is obviously unsustainable, however, and a slowdown has already begun. Though no one?not even Author Paul Erdman?really believes the apocalyptic prophecies in his bestselling novel The Crash of 79, some serious forecasters fear a genuine slump next year...
Screenwriter Walter Newman, adapting Richard Price's tough novel, has no use for dramatic efficiency or synthesis. Besides Stony's story, he tells in lavish detail the histrionic tales of the hero's psychotic mother (Lelia Goldoni), his anorectic kid brother (Michael Hershewe), his sexually troubled dad (Tony Lo Bianco) and his defeated uncle (Paul Sorvino). Newman, like Price, wants to make a larger sociological point about the breakdown of oldtime immigrant values in chaotic modern America, but he overstates the case. Bloodbrothers has so much narrative, most of it melodramatic, that every scene becomes a climax...
Except for a 7,500-word excerpt from Mario Puzo's new novel, Fools Die, the new 140-page LIFE is pictures, pictures, pictures, most of them in color: of family reunions, the rugged beauty of Antarctica, Frisbee-fetching dogs, the filming of The Wiz, Jackie Onassis in the Manhattan publishing-house office she once occupied, the Shah of Iran in his fortified Caspian Sea retreat, Brooke Shields in a skimpy leotard, Henry Fonda in a Boy Scout uniform, Pope John Paul I in the Vatican, and hot-air balloons over Iowa. Conspicuously absent are the kind of late-breaking...
...Exorcist. William Friedkin's film of William Peter Blatty's reasonably entertaining novel is cinematic vomit--in a word, a gross-out. Or maybe two words. Friedkin, whose hit-'em-over the head style should confine him to urban crime thrillers, shoves his disgusting images into our faces in a manner reminiscent of Linda Blair shoving a crucifix into her crotch. Crunch, crunch. Blatty's novel needed: a) someone less pretentious than Blatty to write the screenplay, and b) a director with more of a sense of lyricism and wit, a modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even...
...understand honor and justice, for they were invented by men." The code of chivalry is resurrected in the form of propaganda. Berger is given to writing didactic speeches, and his digressions about good and evil, appropriate for the allegorical literature of the Middle Ages, seem tedious in a contemporary novel...