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...Judge Hardy on the skids, the psychodrama can get awfully wet. But within this familiar format, Hughes creates edge, surprise and romance. Blane and Andie's first chat, conducted on their school computer terminals, is a lovely '80s twist on meeting cute. Blane's snooty friend Steff (James Spader) could be a tired stereotype, but with his all-year tan, his hip-blase voice and his view of high school as a "career," Steff becomes a recognizable character of any age: upscale slime in embryo...
THERE'S A DEATHWISH in this movie. From the opening scene, in which the protagonist Morgan Hiller (James Spader) narrowly averts decapitation by a slashing car aerial, to the final fight, involving everything from dart guns to fireaxes, the smell of blood hangs heavy in the air. And the strangest aspect of this adolescent brinksmanship is its complete premeditation--every character consciously seeks out dangerous situations and harrowing relationships...
...film, "The End of the Dialogue," was smuggled out of South Africa for showing in the West, Ann Spader, a spokesman for the International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa--which owns the film--said yesterday. The documentary won an Emmy award in 1971 for its vivid portrayal of the oppressed conditions of Black, Coloured and Indian South Africans, sharply contrasted against the affluence of white Afrikaaners...
...family newspaper. Regardless of the trial's outcome or of Confidential's eventual fate, daily press coverage of the case and the increase in newsstand sales seemed to indicate that millions of readers like to have a spade of dirt called a spade of dirt-as Dirt Spader Harrison has insisted all along...
...SUSAN V. SPADER...