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...film that would do for country-and-western music what Saturday Night Fever did for the disco craze-make a lively, gritty comment on it and earn big bucks too. Like Fever, Urban Cowboy is based on a magazine article (by Co-Scenarist Aaron Latham). The same star, John Travolta, has been recruited to play the lead...
...characters' lives. Director James Bridges, whose last film was the smooth, tight thriller The China Syndrome, does not bring to his realization of the C. and W. scene anything like the dynamic energy, the sheer stylistic force with which John Badham drove Fever. Finally, the electric charge that Travolta jolted into that film is missing here. If he keeps on this way, he will turn out to be not the Brando of the '80s but the Troy Donahue of the decade...
...film a newcomer named Bud (Travolta) meets both the mechanical steer and Sissy (Debra Winger, who gives the picture's best performance), his bride-to-be, soon after he arrives in town. Before long they are acting out a parody of western drama. Restless and feisty, she wants to become a bull rider too. Bud disapproves, just as he does of her flirtation with an ex-con named Wes (Scott Glenn, who looks tough enough for the part but does not act it). Wes is extraordinarily adept at staying on the bucking machine, and soon enough Sissy has moved...
...wide attention as the courageous "boy in the glass cage"; of complications from repeated blood transfusions; in Bethesda, Md. Teddy was nine when he developed aplastic anemia, which destroys the body's ability to fight off any infection. His life in his sterile sanctuary, portrayed by John Travolta in a 1976 TV film, was poignant: he sometimes threatened to walk out to virtually certain death, but mostly he tried to live normally: he liked Shakespeare, played the electric guitar and became a sci-fi buff; at a Star Trek convention, which he attended clad in an astronaut-type pressure...
Sellers' chameleon-like transitions and ineffable gestures made him the most difficult star Burton has encountered in eleven years of interviewing celebrities, a list that includes Richard Burton, Diana Ross and John Travolta. Concludes Burton: "In terms of challenge, he ranks with three of my favorite TIME cover subjects: Anthropologist-Guru Carlos Castaneda, who wouldn't even be photographed; Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who despises any form of media event; and Opera Maestro Sarah Caldwell, who, like Peter Sellers, is a master of elusive cooperation...