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...video store is the modern library. Actually, it's a kind of combination library-and-sweet-shop-candyland, since, as we all know, it is more exciting to be surrounded by hundreds of movies than by hundreds of books. Each visit to the store brings back the hope that upon exiting you will have chosen the perfect film, one which you have never seen and have always wanted to see. Of course, if it's not any good, the whole experience is extremely dispiriting, but that's not important. The actual viewing has been reduced in importance relative...
Harvard Film Archive--Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song directed by Melvin Van Peebles at 7 p.m. $6.50. Paths of Glory directed by Stanley Kubrick...
This pattern is repeated whenever George isreminded that he is no longer his daughter's hero.It's cute. It's sweet. It's funny. This pattern, Ihope, is what producer Howard Rosenman was talkingabout in the movie's press release when he saidthat "The story is a reaffirmation of commitmentto basic family values." But this pattern is alsorepeated whenever George is reminded howoutlandishly expensive her wedding will be. TheSilly-Daddy-Doesn't-Want-to-Spring-for-a-Gorgeous-Wedding plot goes like this: First, George hearsbad financial news--the wedding cake will costmore than his first car ($1200); the weddingreception...
...despite the movie's heavy-handed and obvious themes, it has both unique twists--how Idgy disposes of the body of Ruth's husband--and hilarious scenes, such as when the transformed nineties-woman Evelyn impulsively rams the car of two sweet young thangs who have stolen her parking space at the shoppin' mall: "I may be slower, but I'm older and have more insurance," she yells triumphantly...
Goudge also prides herself on her work in the teenage fictional genre. Her resume boasts books such as All Night Long and Too Good to be True--both in the "Sweet Valley High" series--as well as the four "Who Killed Peggy Sue?" books. And she has brought her creative touch to the "Seniors" series, which she developed for Dell Publishing...