Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edwards's movies. Part of the reason is that an obsession for fatherhood is a far more complicated affair than an obsession for sex, chocolate, or even motherhood. Another good chunk of the credit goes to the three principals, all of whom appear friendly and accessible on the screen. I would even have given some of the credit to Edwards had I not stuck around to see the movie's credits. The background to the credits is a child's drawing of a daddy with his kids. As the credits are rolling, more and more kids keep popping...
...lavishly decorated with bells, tassels, and colorful curlicues on its ears and wrinkled trunk. Perched on the animal's back are Adela Quested, a quietly adventurous young lady from Britain and her escort, the eager-to-please Indian Dr. Aziz. Suddenly, both beast and humans are dwarfed on the screen to a mere splotch that makes its slow progress against a range of sand-colored rocks, massive and bulbous against the still blue...
...those white balloons with the funny red and blue tails. The Games were going to be grand after all. For two glorious weeks, Americans sat transfixed in front of their TV sets, thrilling to heroes they had never heard of a month earlier. The images that flickered across the screen did not die but lasered moments of grace and pain into memory. Herewith a reprise of those radiant days...
...million miles an hour." Robert Wachs, Murphy's comanager since 1979, gauges the actor's appeal this way: "People want to gift wrap him and take him home." Joe Piscopo, Murphy's partner for 3 1/2 years on Saturday Night Live, says that "Eddie is actually playing himself on-screen. He manages to be totally natural and relaxed. I'd also like him to try something more serious, though, something with Scorcese or Coppola. I know he can pull it off, but I'm not sure he does...
...Galaxy Theater, a four-screen moviehouse in San Francisco, meets most of these prescriptions with panache. Designed by Kaplan/McLaughlin/D iaz Architects, it is a flashy tower of glass boxes, which at night reveal the multihued interior while reflecting the city lights outside...