Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joining the mourning. The girl who most deeply shares Jimmy J.'s excessive regard for Dean is horribly burned when the candle she is carrying ignites her costume. In the end, she has retreated into a psychopathic silence, and Jimmy J., expelled from college, is telling her the plot of Rebel Without a Cause. It does little to perk up her spirits. Undaunted by the misery that he has caused, this idiot climbs on his motorcycle and heads for his idol's haunts in California. Doubtless he toils even now in the movie industry, approving projects like this...
...other problems--with men--are predictable and add little insight. Yet the capacity for comfort brought into the four-woman sessions is moving and believable. Erica's daughter Patty is a precocious (but hardly obnoxiously so), loving daughter who sides with her mother yet cannot reject her father. Old plot, new faces. Lisa Lucas's performance is well-honed, though, and the scene designed to make Erica's new lover (Alan Bates) feel uncomfortable and invading is particularly effective...
Yellow Submarine. Attractively packaged drivel. When it premiered in 1968, "Yellow Submarine" was supposed to be the vanguard of a new age in animation. Since it featured cartoons of the Beatles--and a ridiculous plot regarding the salvation of "Pepperland" by the Fab Four, loosely constructed from their songs--the film was a big hit. Ten years later it's difficult to see why. The animation is quite good, the colors are splendid, but only a rock-ribbed Beatlemaniac could love this movie. Druggies beware, though. Our sources claim that this is a great movie to trip, snort, smoke, shoot...
North By Northwest. Clever. One could say as much for any Hitchcock film. But this one has to be his most ingenious, the plot is devilish--and although Hitchcock never really wrings the full terror out of it, terrifying. Cary Grant plays a Madison Avenue smoothie with a doting mother and life of business luncheons who gets taken (figuratively, and literally) for a spy. "Nice play-acting, but it won't wash," his abductor, a chillingly villainous James Mason tells Grant when he tries to clear up this misunderstanding. Grant breaks free, then does some romantic interluding with a seductive...
...liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind his success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will not soon forget, completely stealing the show in the movie's plot and the movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren is inevitably overshadowed by Russell's stagewise presence, but the delicate treatment she gives...