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...been a classic thaw. Ever since British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proffered an olive branch to the Soviet Union over a year ago with the comment that "we have to live together on the same planet," relations between London and Moscow have steadily improved. According to some, this detente not only has helped spur the renewal of U.S.-Soviet arms talks but has also produced diplomatic rewards for Britain: on Dec. 15, Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev will lead a delegation to Britain. This will be followed next year by a visit from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
Cynics will call this a B-team Superman. Screenwriter David Odell and Director Jeannot Szwarc concentrate on strong, simple pleasures: Slater's easy grace and uncomplicated beauty; the bravura of (Obi-Wan) O'Toole, shameless and affecting as he just about tears a planet to tatters; and a hilarious wicked-witch turn by the delicious Dunaway. The climactic confrontation, in which man's fate is decided by two women, could elicit thrills of laughter from a Saturday-matinee benefit performance...
...David Odell's "Supergirl" script keeps the comic at the cost of coherence. The plot has holes large enough to fit the planet of Krypton through, even before it blew up into tiny bits of Kryptonite...
...your city was about to perish to due to your clumsiness, and you had to search a whole planet for the single magic ball that could save it, what's the first thing you would do? Take out a want ad? Hire a P.I.? If you happen to be Supergirl, you would utilize your most enviable superpower, the ability to change hair color at will and enroll in a suburban girls' school under the alliterative alias Linda...
...They have devised elaborate systems of dividing history into divinely ordained eras. Reagan is among the millions influenced by this subculture, which is actively promoted by Bible colleges, seminaries, TV and radio preachers, and popular products of the Second Coming industry like Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth, which has an astonishing 15 million copies in print...