Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie theaters again. Wrong. A poor second effort, with the usual predictable results. Bring your lunch, but better yet, bring all those greasy little dollars somewhere else. The sequel complex should not be encouraged. Close Encounters of the Third Kind--A major disappointment. A totally boring, over-long, overblown saga of our first communication with extraterrestrials (actually, it's not the first, as anyone from Jablib, Wisconsin, will tell you). Neato special effects, and a nice job by Richard Dreyfuss in a stupid part, but it should have been two hours shorter, and that goo-goo eyed little...
Throughout this long, vivid saga, Novelist Carroll thoroughly exploits the Ragtime device-an interplay of historical figures with fictional characters. The portraits of the authentic personae are intriguing, but the question recurs: Are they real? Bobby Kennedy blackmails Brady's son into planting a bug in Anselmo's office. Young Brady protests that "it's not legal." Replies the Attorney General...
Bangles and chains, a head scarf, a few phrases of Romany and presto, Shelley Winters is an ample gypsy queen in King of the Gypsies. Based on Peter Maas' saga about gypsy life in America today, the film describes the stormy succession to the throne of King Zharko (Sterling Hayden). During the shooting of a scene at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Winters decided to see how authentic she looked. Sauntering over to diners in the Palm Court, she offered to tell their fortunes and was swiftly chased out by the management. Later came revenge. Winters watered the palms...
...titling The American Girls and Flying High. The first features two beautiful researchers who work for a TV newsmagazine like 60 Minutes. Flying High really is, with three from the same mold posing as stewardesses. With the accent on comedy, CBS is also scheduling WKRP in Cincinnati, the saga of a wacky radio station. Setting common sense against such fluffery, Mary Tyler Moore will be back in a one-hour variety show on Sunday night...
With Geronimo Rex (1972), Barry Hannah emerged as a first novelist with an innate gift for gab. His mockepic saga of growing up wacky during the '50s and '60s hummed down the groove of black humor but spun with Southern English. Hannah revealed an ear for the palaver that still goes on around Confederate monuments, as well as for the eloquent cadences of Faulkner and Joyce...