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LASSITER IS SUPPOSED to be a vehicle for Magnum P.I.'s star, but its inane script and direction render him trivial (Young, by the way, directed the 1980 pilot episode of Magnum P.I.). Selleck has failed at his second attempt to capture the larger screen (High Road to China came first). His dimpled affability has garnered an affectionate viewership, and enabled him to walk through weekly episodes of a standard-issue television series: geniality, however, is of negligible value during cinematic scenes which grind so slowly, one can hear crew members in the background phoning home for late dinners...
...their first debut were beginning to heal They're back at out throats with evangelist zeal. Enough is enough: I'm beginning to cry From all of the dreck that's assaulting my eye. Oh. Doctor, this magazine sure needs a cure. But only a blow-torch could render it pure. I'd throw it out, in the compactor yet. But they're going to publish a bound volume set. Oh, they're stronger than me. They'll print volume seven, While I grumble and gripe from a cloud up in heaven...
...China Syndrome, and called it farfetched because the chances seemed infinitesimal that so many things could go wrong and in the necessary sequence. A week later I was in Harrisburg, with a line from the film running through my head: 'If this thing melts down, it will render an area the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable...
...Buddy System, Glenn Jordan's latest contribution to Hollywood sap, is sadly more of the same. The movie comes complete with stock characters who spout cliches as often as brushing their teeth, and whose stock lines and insights render (surprise) stock solutions. All the same, director Jordan must be given some credit for taking the standard storyline of lonely male meets lonely female and giving it some comic embellishment...
First, it is unquestionably immoral to invest in corporations that support an inherently evil system--even with the justification that one intends to "influence change" in that system. With "moral" reasoning that would render such an action permissible, what is to prevent someone from investing in a drug ring, expressing a desire to influence drug dealers to decrease sales to young children or to cut down on drug-related murder...