Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year a certain amount of happy frenzy attends the occasion, but the summer of '78 seems special. "I've never seen anything like it," says British Travel Agent Dennis Carver. "They're willing to go almost anywhere." As long as they go to the Med. The Continent's treasured southern beaches are awash in bodies glued together ham to hock. Dark-skinned Arabs flirt with pale northerners. Africans peddle snakeskin handbags and handcrafted jewelry. Dogs, children and wind surfers turn sand and sea into a hazardous obstacle course for casual bathers. In France the separation...
This is the summer Hollywood will remember as the one when people came back into movie theaters in droves. One smash hit after another is building the biggest box-office crush moviemakers have ever seen, and there is no end to the lines in sight. The perfect summer movie -light, fast moving and uncomplicated -usually turns up every year or two in the form of the "monster hit," that film everybody has to see. In 1975 it was Jaws. Last year it was Star Wars, the most successful film of all time. This year it is Star Wars again. Sweeping...
...solid citizen, Jones shows at least some restraint. Then again, anyone would look calm playing opposite Dunaway. With her bulging, teary eyes and fluttery voice, this actress is a one-woman band of neurotic gestures. It is a tiresome performance that will be particularly grating on anyone who has seen the mannerisms previously in Chinatown and Network. Dunaway does, however, have the only credible line in the movie. It occurs midway through her love scene, when she announces, "I'm completely out of control." - Frank Rich
Once "cured" of homosexuality, they become the most domesticated couple to be seen since Father Knows Best. There's something in A Different Story to turn off audiences of every sexual persuasion -and movie lovers most...
...demands of his role. Right from the start, when he sits at the counter reading Playboy, perusing the centerfold as if it were The New York Times, sucking his upper lip noisily and smoking a cigarette as if it were the first one he had ever seen in his life, he generally fails to establish himself as a convincing character. Director Leslie Rose obviously has no idea what a real redneck is like, and neither does Lipson. Throughout the play Lipson fumbles lines, drops his cigarette and slips in and out of character. He is markedly better in the second...