Word: raves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After eleven sloppy movies, the jaunty minimalism of the twelfth is getting good notices. "The critical success is great," says Norris, "but the main thing is still the public. The critics can rave, but if the people don't come to see your movie, what good is it?" Christopher Pearce, head of production for Cannon Films, the company that last year hired Norris to make six movies, is pleased by the lack of artistic ambition. "That is a great advantage," Pearce says, "because he's not out there wanting to do Shakespeare." Rather than Richard II, the next Norris movie...
...booking 1,500 customers a month. Says Co-Owner John Graeler: "People are banging down our doors for tours. My partner and I are forever running over to Hong Kong to look for more hotel space. First we beg, then we scream, then we rant and rave, and we still don't get as much as we'd like." A cruise to Brazil to observe the progress of Halley's comet is already sold out at prices of about $3,450, depending on accommodations, even though the cruise does not begin until March of next year. To Terry Lazar, vice...
...short, a great American songwriter, with the clean-cut narrative gifts of Chuck Berry, the honesty of a Hank Williams and the rave-up musical skills of a perfesser in a Saturday night juke joint. The guys in Creedence were good, but they were outclassed; almost anyone would be, but that did not make the situation any easier. The group disbanded in 1972, and four years and two halfheartedly received solo albums later, Fogerty shut himself down. He did not stop making music--"Once you stop the next step is backward, and you're going...
...backstage story as entertaining as this deserves the best of punch lines: rave reviews, big business, Oscars all around. But The Cotton Club-the movie, not the gossip machine-deserves less. The volatile drama that attended its making rarely flares onscreen; working at flash point made no sparks fly. On even the calmest of sets, the premise would have shown promise: to blend the early talkies' two most popular genres, the gangster film and the musical, into a sort of Public Enemy Goes to 42nd Street or, modernized, The Godfather Gets One from the Heart. Why, then...
...Green Acres). Dolly tangles with her alcoholic ex-singing partner, who is also her ex-husband (as in Tender Mercies). Dolly teaches Sly to move country-style (as in the Let's Hear It for the Boy sequence from Footloose). Sly belts out Little Richard's rave-up Tutti-Frutti before an incredulous audience (as in another of this week's culture clashes, Top Secret...