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...sometimes seems that the descendants of Ko Lum Bo, along with many of their neighbors throughout Asia, merely waited 500 years before turning Stewart's whimsy into something approaching reality. From the Flushing neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens to the Sunset district of San Francisco, from the boatyards of Galveston Bay to the rich Minnesota farmlands, a burgeoning wave of Asian immigrants is pouring into the U.S. Some of the newcomers do indeed continue to wear the comfortable flowing garments of their native lands. And in cities like Westminster, a Los Angeles suburb, an elaborately decorated...
...some genres will. By the end, when these sunset adventurers take an outward-bound voyage toward a peaceful death, or into eternal life, this film has charted its serene course. One hopes that moviegoers will take Cocoon to their teenage hearts and make a box-office smash of the summer's sweetest, saddest, most exhilarating fable...
Scene 1. A spring morning, 1937, small office of Screen Agent George Ward, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles...
...phone rings in the little office on Sunset Strip. Arnow says that Jack Warner has seen Reagan's test and wants to sign him. Normal starting contract is for a few months. Ward asks for a year's deal, since Reagan is probably making $75 a week and can't give that kind of good money up to run back to California on short terms. O.K., agrees Arnow, a year at $200 a week. Ward wires the news to Des Moines. Reagan is near ecstasy. He pours out his heart in a two-page longhand letter to Ward. "Sometimes those...
...dangerously disrupting the shoot. And there is another good performance by Cheryl Campbell as a coolly amoral aristocrat. Julian Bond's script is curtly literate, Alan Bridges' direction is more Masterpiece Theatre than The Rules of the Game. Still, as Winston Churchill once said, "The old world in its sunset was fair to see," and some of that ironic glow lights The Shooting Party...