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...substantial tax increase next year-- in the form of social security payments, windfall profits payments and the effect of higher tax brackets caused by inflation--it seems reasonable to try the limited tax slash plan recently defeated in the House. As higher production costs and increasing uncertainty continue to stunt incentive in the industrial sector, it may prove necessary to counter the recessionary trend with some sort...
...most impressive thing about The Blues Brothers is its numbers: a budget in the $30 million-$38 million range, a cast of 91, a crew of 191, a stunt team of 78, and the cooperation of nearly every able-bodied Chicagoan except Dave Kingman. Elwood (Aykroyd) and Joliet Jake (Belushi) are out to reunite their band and raise enough money to keep their old parochial school open-and to do it they are willing to turn the Second City into an Indy 500 junkyard. Too rarely, the movie relaxes to let some fine rhythm-and-blues artists (James Brown, Aretha...
...smile button. Kramer vs. Kramer is advertised as a film that is "absolutely today." Nouns continue to be overrun by the jargonaut: the New York Times demands stronger sourcing, meetings are preambled, situations are impacted. The New York Post recently managed a dazzling double play with its offering: "Stunt man extraordinaire Hal Needham will helm the film, which will also (hopefully) include Roger Moore...
...telephone made by stretching a string between two tin cans. Then the scene shifts to two cartoon characters who joke about dialing wrong numbers. To introduce gravity, 3-2-1 Contact skips the traditional account of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple and shows a Hollywood stunt man plummeting from a four-story building; sensibly, Marc refuses to follow...
Tired of driving to work bumper to bumper? Envious of those zigzagging Corvettes, Porsches and Ferraris that smoke past you in the fast lane? Well, cheer up, bunkies. Last week on a dry lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Hollywood Stunt Man Stan Barrett, 36, drove a car at 739.666 m.p.h. to become the first person ever to break the sound barrier on land. Barrett's car will not be in showrooms quite yet. The three-wheel vehicle was powered by a rocket engine as well as a Sidewinder missile to throw it into supersonic...