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...role that offers as many pitfalls as opportunities: surrender to parody and the part becomes as two-dimensional as newsprint; emphasize the stalwart heroism and the audience falls asleep. Reeve brings both a light touch and sufficient muscle to Superman. And when he goes bad, he is a sketch of vice triumphant, swaggering toward the vixen Lorelei for a sulfurous kiss. It is largely to Reeve's credit that this summer's moviegoers will look up at the screen and say, "It's a hit... It's a delight . . . It's Supersequel...
...force to be reckoned with. It takes nothing away from Aykroyd's perfect prissiness as Winthorpe, or from Bellamy and Ameche, having the time of their sunset years playing the Dukes, to say this. But Murphy, using his Tyrone Green character from Saturday Night Live as a sketch for a full-scale portrait, demonstrates the powers of invention that signal the arrival of a major comic actor, and possibly a great star. He makes Trading Places something more than a good-hearted comedy. He turns it into an event...
During a brief visit in the newspaper's Plympton St. offices after his address. Trudeau padded The Crimson's Comment Book with a sketch of his cartoon's namesake. Mike Doonesbury, who has been out of public view since Trudeau began his 18-months break in January...
...their narration, Brownlow and Gill say the footage they recovered and lovingly shaped into a scholarly and joyous television show is akin to finding the sketch books of a great painter. They are right. What is wrong is that no U.S. television distributor has as yet agreed to broadcast the work. But the series will be on view at New York City's Museum of Broadcasting July 12-16. It is worth any amount of trouble to examine the treasures these raiders of the lost film cans have found...
...French will only fuel such criticism. As an attempt to explain the French, the book is a frustratingly inconclusive sketch; it turns out to be not serious research but a more intimate, impressionistic picture of a people the author knows extremely well. "The characters in the book," he finally admits in the conclusion, "are not a scientifically selected sample, but people whom I happen to have gotten to know." The Oxford historian's wish is nothing short of becoming the cartographer of French passions; he writes that "if only as much were known about human passion as is known about...