Word: sinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will again. Jay Sandrich directed TV's finest comedy show, Mary Tyler Moore; he may someday learn to shape character and situation to fit the big screen. Goldie Hawn will remain the put-upon pixie into her twilight years. And for Chevy Chase, as for the most miserable sinner, there is always hope of redemption. One wonders, though, about Charles Grodin. Here, as in Heaven Can Wait and It's My Turn, this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis. But how long can he play second banana...
This film is running for one week in New York and Los Angeles to qualify for Academy nominations. It is the sort of ponderously aspiring twaddle that sometimes wins Oscars-especially when it presents Hollywood a chance to welcome back a suitably repentant sinner. But the once cheerfully perverse director of Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ought to remember that being an artist means never having to say you're sorry...
Dallas drew the largest U.S. television audience in history; members of an estimated 40 million households were riveted to their sets to find out which sinner did the dastardly deed to J.R. But the show also turned off an increasingly militant minority of viewers: in the past nine months half a million Christians have pledged themselves to boycott the products of sponsors of television programs like Dallas that "depict scenes of adultery, sexual perversion or incest, or which treat immorality in a joking or otherwise favorable light...
...syllogism of sorts, an air-tight prescription for the ill-at-soul. It's all laid out in a pamphlet, "God's Simple Plan of Salvation," issued by the same independent Baptists who are attempting to carry the torch to Capitol Hill. Since you are human, you are a sinner. Since you are a sinner, you will die and go to hell unless you save yourself by accepting Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. Since you will go to hell if you are not saved, obtaining salvation is the only thing that should matter to you. From the pamphlet...
...River Valley of western Minnesota, Tom Sinner, 51, who farms 2,000 acres with his family, was also in a quandary. "I don't like what the Russians are doing," he said, "and I don't like selling them high technology, or food for that matter. But we have no illusions about it not costing us. We would like to see everyone else sacrifice too." Sinner has yet to sell most of his 1979 crop and has yet to decide on his spring planting. He could switch more of his land to durum wheat ?all of which is sold...