Word: ripoff
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Since Excalibur cut its swath through box offices this spring, every movie producer with high ideals and $10 million has come up with the same surefire formula: make a hit from a myth. At superficial glance, Clash of the Titans would qualify as the cycle's first ripoff, and a pallid one at that. It proceeds at a pace that must seem stately to tots reared on TV cartoons and the current batch of Saturday matinee-type features. It rarely ascends into exhilaration or slumps into camp. The direction of some actors is pedestrian, if not oafish...
Last week Yale offered the doubloon for sale, and within four days it was snapped up for $650,000. The name of the buyer was withheld because possessors of such costly coins rarely risk publicity and a possible ripoff...
...Gives green light for OIL to ripoff Georges Bank--ocean's most fertile spawning ground for tuna...
...purchase petroleum for either delivery or resale by an agreed date. The firms-among them, International Petroleum Exchange Inc., Bartex Petroleum Corp. and Comercial Petrolera Internacional S.A.-are specifically accused of using false promotional material, failing to disclose risks and defrauding customers in at least 31 states. The ripoff: as much as $30 million...
E.D.T.) Laverne herself (Penny Marshall, that is) directed the first episode of this male Laverne & Shirley ripoff. It stars Jim Belushi (John's brother) and Michael Keaton as janitors who go to work for their uncle in a Chicago office building. Both actors appeared in quick flops last season (Who's Watching the Kids?, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour), but Working Stiffs could be their fastest cancellation yet. There are only so many jokes to be made about moving furniture, and none of them is funny...