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...deference to the First Amendment, the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and the courts are either unwilling or unable to censor program content. If CBTV does it through a sponsor boycott, some who are sympathetic to the goals will oppose the tactic, or worry about the ramifications. Says Alan Reitman of the American Civil Liberties Union: "While every group has a right to protest, there's countervailing civil liberties concern that what the coalition is calling for is also a civil liberties concern. This is a situation where you have the First Amendment competing against itself." The A.C.L.U...
...Dave Thomas of SCTV. Psycho from Taxi Driver, meet martial music from 1941. Tired moviegoer, meet tired moviemakers. And note: Murray, he of the choirboy face and pseudo-hip slouch, is convincing as a soldier who maneuvers his platoon into and out of World War III. Director Ivan Reitman is a canny merchant. He knows that the easy laughs are the surest, that teen-agers love to watch goofballs shape up without losing their shambling style, and that it doesn't hurt business to insert a sorority shower scene or nude mud-wrestling match every half-hour...
Directed by Ivan Reitman Written by Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, Janis Allen and Harold Ramis...
...doubtful whether Belushi himself could have saved Meatballs. Directed by Animal House Co-Producer Ivan Reitman, the movie is a series of shopworn jokes, executed with no discernible flair. The writers have done little more than round up the usual array of stereotyped characters: a horny fat boy, a bespectacled nerd, a conceited stud, busty girls and so on. Once these kids and the head counselors (Murray for the boys and Kate Lynch for the girls) are introduced, the film meanders aimlessly. Half the time, Meatballs forgets to exploit the gags that it so laboriously sets up. No sooner...
...Real Paper has been able to stay in the clear on advertising alone, but not without problems. Chuck Fager of The Real Paper staff charged after the first issue, that "BAD intimidation" existed, and Dick Reitman another staff member, said that BAD advertising salesman had been calling advertisers and telling them that "they had no alternative but to sign with...