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...Spielberg's 1941 is the surprise flop, Carl Reiner's The Jerk, starring Comedian Steve Martin, is the unexpected hit of the season. It cost approximately $10 million, including promotion, and so far has grossed $32 million, with as much success in small towns as in big cities. "People like Steve Martin, and it is a funny film," says Ron Goldman, a co-owner of the Washington, D.C.-based K.B. theater chain, expressing an opinion not shared by most of the critics. He adds: "Thank God the critics aren't quite as important as they used...
...subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic life. Except for the funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going in Style has only dull, homely sequences that alternately patronize and sentimentalize the aged. The mordant humor of Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? and the fiery compassion of Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto are nowhere to be found...
...FRENCH HAVE a word for people with an uncanny knack for getting along: they call them debrouillards. Maria Braun, played by Hanna Schygulla and heroine of Reiner Fassbinder's latest film, The Marriage of Maria Braun, is a debrouillarde...
Cross the wild and crazy humor of Steve Martin with the well-calculated mania of Carl Reiner and what do you get? A hyper hybrid movie called The Jerk. About a weirdo white raised by a poor black Southern family, who;hearing his first Lawrence Welk record, hits the road north to find his own kind of music. "All they played when I was a kid," explains Martin, a.k.a. the Jerk, "was blues." Martin mints a fortune by inventing nonslip eyeglasses, loses it when Reiner, in a walk-on as an irate consumer, brings a successful suit in behalf...
Alderman, who began her career as a secretary to Carl Reiner, said script writers are dictated to by television executives. Her credits include episodes of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Maude," and she received an Emmy Award nomination for "Lily," a T.V. special on Lily Tomlin...