Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's just no way to beat the devil, judging from the number of spook-and-demon movies now brewing in Hollywood. Not only will Actress Linda Blair soon make a spirited return in The Heretic-Exorcist II, but Producer Harvey Bernhard has agreed to work on three sequels to The Omen, his picture about a devilish four-year-old named Damien. The Omen has pulled $50 million into U.S. and Canadian box offices since its release, and so Bernhard plans to bring Damien back as a twelve-year-old, a young man and a Western leader who guides...
...chintzy publisher into an Albanian villain, and seduces the ice-cold grad student upstairs as the luscious female spy Tatania--all in books. The poor guy, awwwwwwww. But of course de Broca lets the foible-ridden writer get the shy student in the end. And while the whole spy-spook idea may be too worn to make this into another sleeper a la King of Hearts, this one is good for throw-away fun and an hour of those pretty faces...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, says, "The black administrator must be careful not to become an appendage or an expedient--the academic spook who sat by the door. [He] may be forced to become the sole keeper of minority affairs, to the exclusion of other burning affairs in today's academic revolution--or evolution. This possibility is a form of solitary self-confinement...
Scott is never animated, never even engaged. Others - including Trish Van Devere and the others (excepting Paul Sorvino, who makes an amusingly sardonic spook) - embody the antique definition of good children: they speak only when spoken to. In the case of such actors as Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Wilson, this is a blessing...
...Spook, Lux, DuWatt, and Swan...