Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MATTHAU AND CLAYBURGH try to sneak through this barrelling plot, hoping that if they just read their lines, no one will notice that they are even in the movie. As usual, Matthau lets his flabby-cheeked scowl and floppy jackets substitute for any real characterization. He makes it clear that Snow has a messy desk, a messy marriage and a mess manner--and he lets it go at that...
Though the appointment has evoked little if any comment in either Japan or the U.S., the selection of Tojo is an ironic one. Mitsubishi's new boss is the son of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime Prime Minister who directed the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and was later tried and executed by an Allied war crimes tribunal...
...Since all concerned here are obviously up to date on the latest advances in crime and crime fighting, why is it that the only thing they can think to do when they want to sneak up close to their prey is put on a dress? This happens three times in Nighthawks, which is surely twice too often unless they are trying to make some tiresome point about the unacknowledged sexual preferences of excessively masculine types...
...Friday the 13th), John Landis (The Blues Brothers)-got started in the business with pictures that cost $100,000 or less. It can be done. Just follow the advice of another ex-scrounger, Martin Scorsese: "You should just start working wherever you can! Get out, knock on every door, sneak into the studio. Drive counts. This is Hollywood." Scorsese might have added that, nowadays, Hollywood is wherever people with drive and dreams get together to make movies. So watch out, L.A. The next star-struck generation may just want to go Pittsburgh...
During one of the most exciting stages of the Detroit convention. I managed to sneak into the main control room and sit in a darkened corner, watching all the components of the grueling four-hour broadcast come together...