Word: retreads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady, here doing a supporting role) and Richard Widmark, who stalked many a stylish mean street in better movie days. Their participation is both a pleasure and a curse. Simply by lending their veteran gifts to this retread, they remind us that progress is not Holly wood's most important product...
...answers. Ann (born Esther Pauline Friedman) receives at least 100 letters a day from her 70 million readers, but during the past 18 months she has been recycling occasional items from old columns. Landers asserts that the issues raised in the repeated items were still relevant. One such retread concerned a woman who-like a reader in 1967-was faced with that timeless quandary of whether to wash a banana after it had been peeled. "Millie in The Bronx," a fretful housewife whose letter ran in February, was rewhining the kvetch of "Irving's wife" 15 years earlier, namely...
...package, the film will leave you dissatisfied with its triteness and perhaps a bit ticked off that Robbins thought he could retread a tired script merely by adding fancy special effects. The missed opportunities seem obvious when, for example, he bungles the easy juxtaposition of monotheism and black magic in a flurry of cliches and char-broiled priests. Risking very little, Robbins lets his movie get bogged down in Middle Ages muck, where it is continually trampled by hordes of frantic peasants and finally burled under the rotting carcass of old fire-breath himself...
...Broadway, of course, every fossilized retread can take a privileged bow once a rainstorm of box-office cash has sanctified it - and Woman of the Year has been showered with a $3.5 million ad vance. As it happens, the evolution of a dramatic form is not that easy to repeal...
Rosenberg fits the Andersonite stereotype far better than the matronly Beebe. Wide-eyed and inexperienced, Rosenberg sees Anderson not only as an alternative to two retread candidates, but also as a savior for the entire American political system...