Word: tenderizers
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...make the same kinds of films but bigger, and without all those people who talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road. Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant) both emigrated to Texas to make western romances (Barbarosa and Tender Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive set of rules. The successful Australian director could end up making lots of money and losing his distinct national voice...
...must have attacked the field with a vengeance, because at the tender age of 28 he has already knotched tenure at Harvard, a plum position on the staff of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), and a reputation as one of the rising young stars in the field...
...Nolte's and Murphy's relationship is more sensitive and profound. Under their white or Black skins, they are not at all the same person. Nolte is a gruff, WASPish, bigoted cop, while Murphy the convict is affluent and civilized. Their developing friendship inspire of themselves provides the tender subplot to this tough movie...
...first few scenes, in which the audience has come to an understanding with the middle-aged Mary build up expectations of the 19-year-old Mary which the younger actress does not quite live up to. Self-centered and enraptured with her tender age and with her talent the younger Mary known as May, strides onto the stage and unabashedly declares she is a genius. But Knice Stetson a B.U. undergraduate plays the part with a too-subdued vivacity...
...challenged matriarch of Morrisonville, Va.; his wife, an orphanage-hardened shopgirl; and especially his mother, who had a "passion for improving the male of the species, which in my case took the form of forcing me to 'make something of my self.' " She had him, at a tender age, delivering newspapers, flogging the Saturday Evening Post and, in preparation for a career in show business, taking banjo lessons...