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...divorces Laurence Harvey, he listens politely to her complaints, then writes in his diary how "it saddens me to see how these silly ladies muck up their lives. The moment they get their hooks into the gentleman of their choice they proceed assiduously to bash the whole thing to pulp with their tantrums and exigence ... It really isn't surprising that homosexuality is becoming as normal as blueberry...
...their subject matter (Dreamgirls) or their urgent tempo (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). They find their heroines in comic strips (Annie) or in history that reads like cheap fiction (Evita). The message sounds clear as a cash-register bell: the way to make a hit is to recycle pulp into...
...fashioned military romance, and bless their youthful innocence, perhaps they haven't. Director Hackford, however, surely has, since he demonstrates an encyclopedic eye for their clichés. All eagerly serve Writer Stewart's earnest desire to reduce experience (he is a Navy OCS graduate) to pulp. Never does a satirical gleam enter anyone's eye. The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul. -By Richard Schickel
Books everywhere are falling apart. Acids in the ink and the pulp devour the pages. The paper crumbles, powdered words in a few generations will blow away like dandelion fluff. Some computer-literate great-grandchild will hold the empty, mortal binding in his hands as if it were Yorick's skull...
...Liddy's favorite quotation from Nietzsche, the suspicion arises that somebody may be 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...