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...series and the inability of Charlie's latest Angel to recite dialogue. In November, the doldrums come to an end. This is sweeps month, when the networks play the Nielsen game for keeps. Suddenly the air waves are flooded with heavy-ticket movies: Dog Day Afternoon, The Omen, Oh, God! Hit shows, from Dallas to Little House on the Prairie, offer expanded episodes; flops go into temporary or permanent hibernation. The competitive fallout can be severe. On the sweeps' first Sunday night, Nov. 4, NBC's MacArthur (Part 2) was beaten almost...
...Exorcist stirred the black undercurrents of movies like these into a raging tide of levitating beds and spinning heads. Through all this, Linda Blair remained determinedly professional. The boomlet of satanic kiddie movies like The Omen has not entirely receded. Consequently, there has been a small reaction back toward the Shirley Temple style. Quinn Cummings' appearances in The Goodbye Girl and TV's Family stir memories of dear Bonnie Blue...
...BUDGET summer shockers--Prophecy, alien, The Omen in its time--are all wrong: humorless, literal-minded disasters. Horror movies thrive on satire, wit, ghoulish irreverence (or else elaborately-stylized reverence, as in the Hammar films, to the point where it's funny). Or else lots of erotic overtones. (Alien had some, but they're mitigated by the film's frigidity. Prophecy is sexless.) The British can usually make funnier and more stylish horror films, because they're so good about being shocked: "A vampire you say? My word..." Here are a few of the most precious moments in horror history...
...make sure they haven't shoved it into one of those mini-cinies in your neighborhood mall. In New York it's only showing on a tiny screen next to the Plaza Hotel. Superman is coming, as everybody knows. I have little faith in director Richard Donner after The Omen, but it'll be good to have Brando back on the screen even if he's a bit blubbery and only on for a few minutes. I hear the approach is a little campy in places, and I'm not too eager to see Gene Hackman again after his Polish...
...promising omen is that Kansas City will open the series with the survivor of the Yankees-Red Sox slugout at Royals Stadium, where they have won 55 games and lost only 24. The field is richly carpeted with Tartan Turf. On this artificial greensward, ground balls that would be easy outs elsewhere rocket past chagrined infielders. The Royals play their rug like so many home-town pool sharks fleecing visiting marks from the big city. Says Designated Hitter Hal McRae: "In this park, we don't drop a big bomb on people, we just run them all over...