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...spirit was cordial at a small dinner for the Reagans that night given by the Gorbachevs at the Soviets' squat, three-story, modern-style mission in Geneva. In keeping with the Kremlin's temperance campaign, the customary vodka toasts were dispensed with, and the guests sipped white and red wines from Soviet Georgia. Gorbachev and his wife Raisa recounted how they had met at Moscow University, and she lamented that her husband's new job gave her little time to pursue her academic career. The Reagans extolled the charms of California, and Gorbachev boasted about his grandchild, whom he professed...
...quietism, doubts the necessity of vengeance, so that Rocky can inform her that a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Arduousness follows, an endless subverbal sequence in which the hero trains in the vast primitive fastness of the Soviet wilderness, with only his own fighting spirit to sustain him as he chops wood, lifts rocks and runs up the highest mountain for a socko finish. Crosscut with this lonely ordeal are shots of Drago, who has an entire collective of helpers and all the latest electronic and chemical gizmos working on his muscle tone...
...deadly quiet), pounding music, blows that resound as if someone were holding batting practice with watermelons. Can Rocky weather the terrible punishment of the early rounds? Will he get in some good licks for poor beleaguered capitalism? Will the assembled proletariat discern the greatness of his spirit and, setting aside all propaganda (and KGB) considerations, start cheering for a democratic working man? Will Rocky get the opportunity to make, of all things, a plea for détente? Only if you have been living in deepest Siberia since 1976 need...
...other ways, too, the pastiche that Writer Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Goonies) has concocted to show us the Young Sherlock Holmes in adolescence has something of the true canonical spirit. There are casually astounding displays of deductive reasoning, evil plotters recruited from the far corners of empire trying to avenge ancient wrongs. Director Barry Levinson (Diner, The Natural) has a tasteful eye for Victorian atmosphere: fog, hansom cabs, the glow of gaslight. But one does not automatically imagine these characters, this period, having much appeal for today's young audience...
...dead. Ten years after, this polysexual rock-'n'-roll travesty has earned over $60 million at midnight box offices. But R.H.P.S. is more than a sleeper hit for insomniacs. It is a cross-generational phenomenon, an evocation of '50s monster movies wrapped in the anything-goes spirit of the '60s that found a niche in the '70s and has blossomed in the '80s into a rite of passage for millions of American teenagers. As Richard O'Brien, the 43-year-old New Zealand-born Londoner who wrote Rocky's script, music and lyrics, noted on its tenth anniversary, "The movie...