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TAKE A CLASSIC TALE of medieval love and romance, add a dash of Runyonesque comic relief, a soupcon of high-tech editing a jazzy MTV soundtrack and seal it with a magical spell and you've got Ladyhawke. This cinematic hodgepodge of seemingly incompatible elements really resolves itself into an eighties version of the Arthurian romance, replete with ladies fair and valiant men of arms...
Bumbling his way through 13th Century France, Broderick'ss Phillippe is the quintessential nerd-in-shining armor. Responding to Navarre's grandiloquent statement that Phillippe's arrival is a sign from God that Navarre must meet his destiny by murdering the vile Bishop who has cast a spell over Navarre and his lady love Isabeau (Michelle Pfeitter), the Mouse quips, "Well, Sir, I talk to God all the time, but meaning no disrespect he never mentioned...
...that broke things open for us--it broke the spell," Wentzell said. "That was a clutch, clutch...
...Germany, myth and reality intertwine: the real Faust was Luther's contemporary, and Goethe set one of his play's scenes in the Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig. Today the ancient tavern is guarded by statues of Faust and Mephisto, and the latter is seen casting a spell over a group of Leipzigers. "Loose the bonds of illusion from their eyes!" Mephisto says as he releases them. "Remember how the devil joked." They are words too often unheeded, as modern history testifies...
...Kampelman, the Washington attorney who is leading the American side in the space-weapons talks, was given a dozen pages of talking points that spell out the Administration's general views on the relationship between offense and defense. He will outline "worrisome" trends in the strategic balance between the superpowers, which the U.S. feels was knocked out of kilter by increased Soviet deployments of multiwarhead land missiles. He will air American concerns about the potential upgrading of Soviet air-defense systems. He will also share U.S. ideas about how emerging weapons technologies like laser beams and other "directed energy" might...