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...Moment is an awful movie, but it may some day occupy a hallowed place in the pantheon of high camp. This isn't your everyday Hollywood boo-boo; the film is downright perverse. For a couple of hours, two of the screen's best actors, John Travolta and Lily Tomlin, walk around overdecorated rooms and whisper sweet nothings to each other. They have sex in a Jacuzzi full of bubble bath. They build sand castles on a Malibu beach. They fondle cute dogs. They say things like: "I don't even know what the word love means...
...Since Travolta's lines, however drippy, are all written to be read sincerely, he escapes Moment by Moment alive. He works powerfully hard to make Strip vulnerable and compassionate: watching him, one can imagine how the film might have dealt seriously with the issues it raises about men and women. Travolta alone, of course, cannot save the movie, but it is reassuring to know that there is at least one professional onscreen...
...Whether Travolta is enough to pull in huge audiences this time around is an open question: next to this film, Grease starts to look like Citizen Kane. He appears fairly often in his Saturday Night Fever bikini briefs, but Moment by Moment's sexual drift is more than a little ambiguous. When Tomlin touches his body, she does so in the clinical manner of a doctor probing for telltale lumps...
...When Travolta joins her in bed, he seems to be making love to a mirror image of himself. There is no erotic chemistry whatever, but the romantic trysts do reinforce the guiding spirit behind the movie. For those who toil in the never-never land of camp, heterosexuality is still the biggest joke...
Cohan added that the Lampoon had sent its cover photograph of Travolta from its 1978 summer issue, titled "Journal of the Mind," along with its invitation to the star of "Saturday Night Fever...