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WHEN YOU COMING BACK, RED RYDER is a showcase for Marjoe Gortner. It shares much with the movie that introduced him. In the documentary Marjoe Gortner exposed himself as a rip-off travelling evangelist who gloated as he fleeced his followers. His sexual energy and charisma invited comparisons with Mick Jagger. Blue-haired dowagers fainted at his feet...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Go Home, Red Ryder | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

...afternoon at the Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles. A group of newspaper television critics have assembled to talk to the stars and producer of CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard, a misbegotten rip-off of Smokey and the Bandit. The questions are relaxed, the answers as washed as California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Crankier Critics of the Tube | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...Year's Biggest Rip-Off: ABC's Battlestar Galactica, which tries to imitate Star Wars without characters or talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: NO BIZ LIKE... | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Rip...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Dartmouth Drops Brown From First With 31-21 Upset | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

None of this would be so painful if it was rip-off plain and simple. The rip-off, however, is a righteous one. Harvard may in fact hate America but it hates this guy a lot more...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Harvard Hates LeBoutillier | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

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