Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Masson seems at times to be a rebel looking for a cause. At one point he found it--psychoanalysis--which, temporarily at least, seemed to obviate the need to rebel. But it did not last, and later, disillusioned with the field. Masson wrote a book which he claims might just start the downfall of the profession...
Even at 19 Masson seemed to have the ability to charm the authorities and at the same time rebel against them--an ability that served him well when he moved into the psychoanalytic field. But at Harvard, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, he studied Sanskrit...
Still, Newman is inevitably a force to reckon with, and that makes his casting of the feeble Benson the more surprising-surely he knows he can hold the screen against a real actor. Howard is supposed to be a rebel and a goof-off, but with a core of sensitivity and integrity supporting his literary ambitions and his resistance to Harry's loud demands that he find steady work. But Benson is one of those performers who appear to be playing for the mirror instead of the camera; nothing interferes with his pleased self-contemplation Harry...
...into its seats only to find it cannot sit down; the opening music and images just will not allow it. Here are a couple of dozen happy dancing feet moving irresistibly to a pounding Kenny Loggins raver that finds its inspiration in every let's-rock anthem from Rebel Rouser to Devil with the Blue Dress On. "You can fly if you'll only cut loose,/ Footloose,/ Kick off your Sunday shoes." Any viewer with a pulse rate above 25 will be bound to do the same...
...minutes. Partly this arises from the picture's design. Though it is being marketed with the now familiar multi-media blitz, Footloose means to imitate Flashdance only in its box-office success. Ross and Screenwriter-Songwriter Dean Pitchford have set their sights much higher. The basic plot-Rebel Without a Cause crossed with the old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musicals in which somebody always shouted, "Hey, kids, let's put the show on right here!"-is buttressed with motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement and Bible Belt vigilantism. That...