Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this world than a faithful pal, unless it is to return to his out-of-this-world home. Cynics will insist he is made of aluminum, E.T. steel, fiber glass, polyurethane and foam rubber, but this is a small matter. The larger truth is that E.T. emerged from a sweet communal dream: of fellowship, loyalty, ordinary heroism, unfettered fun. He is every child's secret best friend, every adult's reverie of the innocence that was, once upon our time...
...Dillingers, who represent the Unevangelized Fields Mission, a conservative Protestant agency, have helped the Danis make Christianity their own by blending it with local customs and practices. At worship, Danis use sweet potatoes and raspberry juice instead of bread and wine for Communion, and sing hymns they have written themselves...
...concoct mock-academic theories about Casablanca. One can lay the sweet thing down on a stainless-steel lab table and dissect it with instruments Freudian or anthropological. A doctoral thesis might be written on the astonishing consumption of alcohol and cigarettes in the movie. At that rate, everyone would have died of cirrhosis and lung cancer...
...quite a moral. But it is at least a line, and a principle, that Pollack, Hoffman and everyone else could agree on as they wobbled and squabbled along disaster's edge over the long, intemperate season they endured together. It has given meaning, and a sweet humanity, to then-comedy. It is what will make Tootsie roll straight into everyone's heart. And into everyone's mind as an unmelting movie memory...
...direct and uncomplicated as an old county trunk blacktop, Clint Eastwood has fashioned a marvelously unfashionable movie, as quietly insinuating as one of Red's honky-tonk melodies. It is a guileless tribute not only to plain values of plain people in Depression America, but also to the sweet spirit of country-and-western music before it got all duded up for the urban cowboys. As both actor and director, Eastwood has never been more laconic than he is in this film. If it reminds one of anything it is neither Dirty Harry nor Every Which Way but Loose...