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...other "hosers." Now they have been given 90 minutes of screen time and a license to steal children's lunch money. Strange Brew, which the two stars also directed, sets the Cheech and Chong of malt into an informal remake of Hamlet and includes "quotations" from Star Wars, Superman, W.C. Fields movies and Polish jokes. (Sample dialogue, Bob to heroine: "Hey, you're real nice. If I didn't have puke breath I'd kiss you.") On TV Thomas and Moranis are sophisticated parodists; on film they are clod farceurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Sep. 12, 1983 | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...that gained momentum by the summer (Porky's in 1982, Flashdance this year); and the usual olio of comedies, thrillers and musicals. As of last week, seven 1983 films had earned more than $50 million: Jedi ($216.9 million), Flashdance ($74 million), Trading Places ($72.9 million), WarGames ($61.8 million), Superman III ($61. 5 million), Octopussy ($59.6 million) and Staying Alive ($50.9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hot Summer II | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

MARRIED. Margot Kidder, 34, outspoken Canadian actress who soared to fame as Lois Lane in the Superman movie series; and Philippe de Broca, 50, French film director who made the 1966 cult classic King of Hearts; she for the third time, he for the second; in Vert, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 15, 1983 | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be DONE? | 7/29/1983 | See Source »

...Sleeping Beauty, Christopher (Superman) Reeve is a goody-goody prince, a sort of prissy Cary Grant in a mail doublet. Bernadette Peters casts her spell as the princess who responds a mite too ardently to his wake-up kiss. The two also play their evil doppelgängers, giving a psychological twist to the old notion that fairy-tale characters are either all good or all bad. In this case, they are both. A gruff woodsman (George Dzundza) narrates the tale with the accent of a Borscht Belt comedian. "I gotta great princess for you," he tells the prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cinderella Puts On a Show | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

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