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...events of the coming season, this much is known (readers who wish to defer these surprises until they are revealed on-screen are advised to proceed directly to the next para graph): the Ewing family is intact. Both Sue Ellen and Cliff I will be arrested and released. While J.R. recuperates, Bobby will assume the presidency of Ewing Oil and become obsessed with power, thus putting a severe strain on his marriage. Pamela will find her mother, a mysterious rich lady, and Ray Krebbs (Steve Kanaly), the Southfork Ranch foreman, will find his father. Cliff will establish a new political...
...could appreciate it for the sense it gave of seemingly ordinary people drawn into a swamp of frustrations and aggressions. De Palma's movies no longer explore these tensions; they have become exhibitions of a master puppeteer pulling high-tension strings. In Dressed to Kill, the marionettes on-screen still respond to De Palma's manipulations. Moviegoers may not, especially those who hoped that De Palma would become the heir to Hitchcock's throne rather than the scavenger of his vaults. -By Richard Corliss
Some of the most violent action in tele vision lately appears not on-screen but in broadcasters' boardrooms. The latst victim: Maurice R. Valente, 51, fired iast week as president of RCA Corp. after just six months on the job. Like CBS President John D. Backe, dismissed seven weeks ago by CBS Chairman William S. Paley, Valente had been the heir apparent to a major communications com pany. RCA is the parent company...
...scene, for instance, the walking tanks are impervious to ordinary weapons, and Luke and his band of intrepid fighter pilots are forced to use older methods. Circling the legs of one of the giant camel-like machines, a rebel fighter ensnares it, and it crumbles to the ground. On-screen that intricate maneuver takes perhaps 60 sec., but to put it there took the technicians at his Industrial Light and Magic Inc. three months. Most impressive of all is the Millennium Falcon's voyage through the asteroid field as it attempts to elude pursuing Imperial fighters. Huge rocks whiz...
...look up to a queen, particularly if the kid is Ricky Schroder, 9. Properly togged in midget tuxedo, the star of The Champ met Queen Elizabeth II at the film's London premiere. Whether, when the lights went down, the Queen sobbed like others who have seen Ricky on-screen remained a royal secret...