Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This last is provided by the smart, ambitious title character (Burt Reynolds, in his tough-romantic vein), who is a detective being disciplined with a tour of netherworld duty. What sets them all in muttering motion-in its best passages the movie sounds like a Robert Altman film, full of cynical asides and loopy observations-is the brutal murder of a call girl. Since one of the conventions of up-to-date murder mysteries is that pillars of the community must always have a slimy underside, she turns out to have been the victim of sexual perversity among the local...
Despite Switaj's fancy record, the smart money says that O'Connor sits between the posts tonight...
...more damaging is the childish ease with which these two penetrate the conspiracy. A careless phone call here, a too-trusting security guard there, and all is revealed to them. If these international manipulators are so smart, how come they leave the notebook containing the secret computer code lying around where anyone can read it? Can we really be expected to believe that the conspirators would bring down the financial system-an act as inconveniencing to them as to the rest of the world-just because Jane and Kris (but no one else) have caught on to them...
...look to him for relief. In John Reed, Beatty found a figure ideally suited to his own quiet narcissism--a modern saint, political innocent and martyr. And, rounding the character slightly by showing his insensitivity to others, "You love yourself; you fuck me" brays Diane Keaton) Beatty gives a smart, delicate performance, sleepy but cognizant, doggedly pursuing his ideals while the world blows up around...
...Year. The mean number of prerecorded tapes rented by a VCR owner. In 1979, the smart money was still on software; prerecorded tapes will be like records, albeit (at an average price of $69) expensive records. Nowadays the smart money has wised up, and the action has moved to rentals. Why pay the price to own Ordinary People when you can pay a fraction of the cost (sometimes as little as a dollar a day) to rent it? Now the movie companies want in. "We couldn't continue to invest millions of dollars to feed this market...