Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were outrageous parodies of two moribund film genres. But his last film, Silent Movie, was a bomb, although it reflected a willingness to do the unconventional. Silent Movie relied too much on slapstick (what do you expect from a movie with no dialogue?) and as a result became quite tedious. Brooks learned from that experience, for High Anxiety has the most developed plot of any Brooks film since The Producers and a minimum of sight gags, and although it ultimately fails to be very entertaining, Brooks has made a pretty good...
...gone for three tedious weeks in Room 2228 of the New Senate Office Building. The committee is ostensibly holding hearings on whether the Senate should confirm Jimmy Carter's promotion of Civiletti, 42, to be the Justice Department's second-ranking official. No one on the committee has raised serious doubts about his fitness for the job. But the G.O.P. members have been holding the nomination hostage while they take political pot shots at the Administration. "We're all political animals," admits Nevada Republican Paul Laxalt...
...authentic friendliness to Tiegs, and it is a large part of the surprisingly personal contact that she manages to make with strangers who see her pictures. But there is also a professional friendliness, of the kind that good politicians develop. She gets first names right, listens thoughtfully to tedious questions. On this morning of the solid-mahogany talk show, she woke too late for breakfast, grabbed a few pieces of candy on the way out of her Sherry-Netherland suite, reached the TV studio on time, politely declined an offer to redo her hair and makeup, and was greeted...
...film's tedious final half-hour is more ideologically right-minded than dramatically convincing. Mazursky never has figured out how to wrap up his movies. Yet along the way his script offers one moment of recognition after another. Some of the funniest occur when Erica and her female friends get together for in formal consciousness-raising sessions that are accurately described as "part Mary Hartman, part Ingmar Bergman." Mazursky has also written some moving scenes for Erica and her 15-year-old daughter (Lisa Lucas); he understands painfully well the bottomless angers and conflicting loyalties that divorce creates among...
Genevieve Bujold is a wonderful actress--unfailingly charming--but here she battles four forces which succeed in overwhelming her: the hospital administrators, her skeptical fellow-surgeon lover (Michael Douglas), Crichton's tedious script, and her own French accent, which, despite her valiant attempts to obscure it, makes more comebacks than Napoleon. She does give Coma its interesting moments, however; when she climbs a ladder, the camera looks up her dress with unabashed voyeurism...