Word: schickele
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOVIES . . . FATHER'S DAY: Producer-director Ivan Reitman's film never develops into much more than a situation, notes TIME's Richard Schickel, a situation with the sole rationale of placing smooth, sardonic Billy Crystal, playing a successful lawyer named Jack Lawrence, in close, impatient proximity to Robin Williams, playing a failed playwright-poet named Dale Putley. "You know from the outset that their quest will quickly become a shared one, that the hip careerist and the careerless former hippy will bicker and ultimately bond. You can?t say the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel makes the most...
MOVIES . . . THE FIFTH ELEMENT: "To say 'The Fifth Element,' even though it is set in 2259, induces a powerful sense of d?j? vu is to say nothing useful about it," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "For it is science fiction in the postmodern -- well, anyway, the post?'Blade Runner' -- mode. Its true subjects are art direction, special effects and the show-off panache with which its director and co-writer, Luc Besson, deploys them." Besson's energy and inventiveness are considerable and, up to a point, quite entertaining. Indeed, one could argue that his work offers a distinct kinetic improvement...
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