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...every special effect in the book to turn your youth into another Pop Pipe Dream. Swinging from chandeliers? You look more like the debating team type to me, but I guess that's not enough for our friend Spielberg. But there's no mystery in YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES (Sack Charles) because we've seen it all before. Here we have Goonies with a British accent: into every life, a lot of magic must shine. But there's none of the poignancy of Spielberg's earlier E.T. or Close Encounters. I don't mind the bright lights and special effects...
...ignore that. But speaking of tired concepts, how about SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE (Sack Copley)? Dudley Moore plays the Elf who wanted to sell out Santa, and John Lithgow is the evil Toy Manufacturer who wants to get the goods before they hit the sleigh route. Moore and Lithgow put in some agile performances, but the lines just aren't there--not even Moore and Lithgow can improv their way through this debacle...
...NEWLY RELEASED film about the life of the Virgin Mary, Hail Mary, which portrays her as a modern-day gas station attendant and shows her nude, was originally to be shown by the Sack cinema chain. However, under intense pressure and scattered threats of violence from religious protesters after the movie was denounced by the Pope and other Catholic officials, Sack, which owns most of the major theaters in the Boston area, dropped the film. Sack owner A. Alan Friedberg's decision was cowardly. Friedberg expressed compassion for the sentiment of offended Catholics, fear for the safety of audiences...
After it was dropped by Sack, Hail Mary was picked up by the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge. Irrespective of the quality of this particular movie, the Orson Welles deserves congratulations for showing the film in the face of bomb threats and continued picketing. Likewise, Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy and Police Chief Anthony Paolillo deserve censure for suggesting that the cinema bow to the protesters threats and not show the movie...
...official Whammo Hacky Sack is made of plastic beads coated with animal hide. "If you don't eat meat, it's hard to justify playing Hacky Sack says Lerdow. "That's the only trouble--thinking about all the dead animals the went into...