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...mail came the year's most original movie tie-in: a red plastic visor with a 4-in. protruding, well, sort of asparagus stalk. "Fun Facts and Myths About the Pineal Gland (The Gland of the '80s)" reads the press release. "Mad Doctor Edward Pretorious' invention stimulates the pineal gland and causes it to protrude and take on a personality of its own -- much like your official From Beyond Pineal Gland Visor . . . Wear it anywhere: the ballpark, parties, the shower (it's waterproof...
Summing up his philosophy--perhaps "approach" would be a better word--Avildsen observed "There are only so many stories. Some people say there are only two stories, 'Jack and the Bean-stalk' and 'Cinderella."' Which kind does the blockbuster filmmaker and Academy Award winner favor? "Stories that don't cost a lot of money to do." In the trillion-dollar age of the imperial Spielbergian director, it's understandable why Avildsen remains one of the business's favorite practitioners...
...hard. That picture points to the prime dilemma of color reporting. Color is pretty, misery is not. Susan Meiselas followed the war against Somoza in Nicaragua. Jean-Marie Simon covered life in Guatemala during the worst years of military repression in the early 1980s. When men with automatic weapons stalk the streets, how do you keep the pinks and greens of Central America from trivializing the image? Meiselas and Simon do it by letting both elements -- beauty and mayhem -- make their simultaneous statements...
...good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told you it wouldn't work," says the daughter as they stalk out of the room. Snaps the friend: "Well, you set it up wrong." TV's First Father himself, Bill Cosby, might admire the family insights displayed in the season's best new sitcom...
...base open, New York Mets Manager Davey Johnson is at the mound telling Gooden to walk Pedro Guerrero, who earlier hit a home run. Mapping tactics with the infielders, Johnson has scarcely a word for Gooden, the 6-ft. 3-in. centerpiece of the team. He is a slender stalk from Florida, a righthander. Even in repose, the impression of him is mostly arms and legs. As long ago as last November, he was a teenager...