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...into the pants and hearts of the audience, the movie uses as many ruses as the guys. Damned if most of them don't work. Wedding Crashers is a slick operation, and Vaughn and Wilson are a couple of three-card-monte dealers whose patter is so engaging, you may not mind being swindled into thinking this is a really good movie...
...more rascal than scoundrel, as personified by boyish Coach Barry Switzer, 48, who might answer to Barry Spritzer. "I'm getting too old to have a good time," he worried. "I didn't make All-Hospitality Room this year." As mussed and professorial as Paterno looks, that's how slick and worldly Switzer appears. His teams are frequently referred to as "loose," a code word for undisciplined. Paterno has accomplished one of the rarest feats in sports: replacing a legendary coach, Rip Engle (whom he served as an assistant for 16 years), and becoming a larger legend. Switzer, after...
...world's longest-running erotic stage musical," as it is now billed, has changed little since those Pleistocene days, and today's critics would probably make the same judgments as their predecessors. "With all my heart, I recommend staying away from the slick and repulsive come-on called Oh! Calcutta!, "wrote Brendan Gill of The New Yorker. "Voyeurs of the city unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains," added Clive Barnes in the New York Times. "Far from being a sexual stimulant, Oh! Calcutta! is an anaphrodisiac," declared TIME's T.E. Kalem...
...slick video for the project's rather schmaltzy anthem, Hands Across America, with soaring shots of rugged landscape and cameos of dozens of stars, was released last week. Groups ranging from the New York Road Runners Club (which organizes that city's marathon) to Boy Scout troops have signed up to help with the logistics. Kits have been sent to more than 8,000 schools. Some 340 paid staffers are already in towns along the way and are working with 40,000 volunteers who have signed up to be marshals...
...slick new cable service, TelShop, a joint venture of Financial News Network and Comp-U-Card International, expects to lure bigger spenders with such attractions as videocassette recorders, vacation packages and exercise bicycles. Another upscale contender, Shop Television Network, which will officially hit the airwaves next week, hopes to stand out from competitors by featuring a celebrity host, Singer Pat Boone, and guest experts like Figure Skater Scott Hamilton...