Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plain that soapboxes would not be permitted at their party. When an Italian gay rights activist tried to stage a demonstration in Red Square, he was quickly overwhelmed by uniformed police and plainclothes KGB officers. The police also closed in on a group of journalists who were covering the stunt. U.P.I. Bureau Chief John Moody was kneed in the groin and detained for 25 minutes, two French photographers were roughed up and forced to expose their film and an NBC cameraman had his film confiscated...
...lesbian. The riposte to this rich variety of nonsense is for Lange, Curtin and Saint James to stage a heist. They decide to make off with the day's receipts of a shopping center, which are being displayed in a huge plastic ball as a promotional stunt. There are reasonable suspense and good comic effect as the three nice women stumblingly rehearse, plan and execute the robbery. The strategy is to attack while witnesses are distracted by a goofy historical pageant about Oregon, where - refreshingly - the film was shot. The high point of that history, the socko ending toward...
...terrorize the few survivors of an atomic apocalypse, and who are tracked down and slaughtered by a draconian police force. As a story, the film makes for overwrought, even repellent melodrama. The movie has little feeling for, or interest in, the human idiosyncrasies of its characters; they are glorified stunt men, stock figures in stock cars. But Mad Max is not a "people picture." It is an action movie whose subject is machines, and the sophisticated killing ma chine man could become. The hardware is the star here: the souped-up Chevies and demon motorcycles, captured by Miller...
...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...