Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN Directed by Taylor Hackford Screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart...
...Winger play this nonsense as if neither one of them had ever seen an old-fashioned military romance, and bless their youthful innocence, perhaps they haven't. Director Hackford, however, surely has, since he demonstrates an encyclopedic eye for their clichés. All eagerly serve Writer Stewart's earnest desire to reduce experience (he is a Navy OCS graduate) to pulp. Never does a satirical gleam enter anyone's eye. The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul. -By Richard Schickel
These shorcomings aside. Hackford's rendition of Douglas Day Stewart's story is tasteful and touching. Zack Mayo never would have thought he'd make it into a cockpit neither would his father nor Foley. But he does, and An Officer and a Gentleman will leave you satisfied and humming quietly to yourself...
...scene of the region's other conflict, Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart notes a jarring contrast: "In East Beirut, there is scarcely a soldier to be seen. West Beirut is an armed camp." Inside that camp, Correspondent Roberto Suro reports, "Beirut has changed my perceptions of many things. After all the car bombs, parked automobiles will always seem menacing. After all the air raids, the sound of a jet passing overhead will never be the same...
...William Drozdiak. Reported by William Stewart and Roberto Sun/Beirut