Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the ubiquitous Rocky films, Rambo represents another triumph for Stallone's distinctive brand of macho Americana. Stallone, who conceived of the film and co-wrote the script, is reveling in the popularity of his latest patriotic fable. "People have been waiting for a chance to express their patriotism," he says. "Rambo triggered long-suppressed emotions that had been out of vogue. Suddenly, apple pie is an important thing on the menu...
...days to go back to Des Moines. So Ward right there calls up his friend Max Arnow, who agrees to give Reagan a quick test. Ward takes his new friend out to the studio in his green Chrysler, and after one glance Arnow puts Reagan to work on a script...
...into journalistic ethics? Short answer: Are you kidding? Long answer: Check out the movie imperfectly titled Perfect, in which John Travolta is, as usual, miscast, this time as the journalist; Jamie Lee Curtis is rendered grim by the unaccustomed effort of thought; and Director James Bridges (who wrote the script with Aaron Latham) proves he has no rhythm. As a concept in search of a plot, the picture will infuriate those who come for the jiggles and giggles while offending those dear souls still foolish enough to seek high-mindedness at the movies in the summer...
...late James Mason, whose last performance this was, is superb in his distracted eccentricity, especially in a scene with John Gielgud, who plays an animal- rights enthusiast dangerously disrupting the shoot. And there is another good performance by Cheryl Campbell as a coolly amoral aristocrat. Julian Bond's script is curtly literate, Alan Bridges' direction is more Masterpiece Theatre than The Rules of the Game. Still, as Winston Churchill once said, "The old world in its sunset was fair to see," and some of that ironic glow lights The Shooting Party...
...movie by six new characters led by Butler Tim Curry. The plot is said to contain enough hints for figuring out who did what where. But until Clue is released early next year, nobody is squealing -- certainly not the actors, who have yet to film or even see the script finale. Says Warren: "It's all very suspicious. No one knows what anyone else is up to." Everyone is nonetheless promising a rollicking comedy thriller packed with mirth and mayhem. If not, it's the producers in the toilet with the bomb...