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...they shot the novelization instead of the screenplay. An Officer and a Gentleman works more like a paperback page turner than a film intended for the allegedly sophisticated movie audience of the '80s. It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations. Aside from a few delightfully dishonorable throwbacks, we haven't had moviemaking like this since the '50s, and maybe we don't want it. But what a long-denied pleasure it is to make up one's own parodies as the film unreels rather than...
...generally successful effort to wrestle Irving's sprawling work into a story digestible in one sitting, Hill and Tesich have left out crucial scenes and subplots which support the main story and underscore its irony. Those who have not previously believed in Garp enough to buy a paperback copy will undoubtedly enjoy themselves. You can't beat the plot. But viewers may on several occasions wonder what all the craziness is about, and "Garpmania" may not suffice as an answer...
...magazines and scholarly journals. But nothing has brought him more recognition, notoriety and money than two novels, last year's The Cardinal Sins (2.6 million copies in print) and this year's Thy Brother's Wife. The first is in its 21st week on the paperback bestseller list, the second in its twelfth on the hardback charts...
...Beat System joins an innumerable legion of schlock paperback gimmicks now decorating cash register counters at the Coop But in contrast to the merry Preppy Handbook and the 101-things to do with-a-cat books. How To smell rotten--like the kid who stole Geometry homework in the 10th grade. The authors seem to believe what they preach arguing earnestly. "It would be a shame it [any college student] should, through simple ignorance of the system, be rejected by every medical school in the world. "Their merciless blugeoning of the language only complicates the crime: "Comparing high school...
...taking the enterprise a trifle too seriously. That's especially so when we know the title character is not borrowed from anyone's list of the great books, but from Weird Tales, a pulp magazine of the 1930s, and owes his continued life to comic books and paperback originals. Nostalgia for creatures from the black lagoon of adolescent fantasy, even a certain wry affection, is permissible; the lugubrious sobriety John Milius brings to Conan the Barbarian...