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Every Sunday evening some 11 million U.S. households watch the Fox network's raunchy hit, Married . . . With Children. But a letter-writing campaign by just one shocked viewer in suburban Detroit has prompted several national advertisers to yank their commercials from the blue-collar sitcom...
...episodes test the viewer's patience, and there is considerably more wit in the film's sumptuous design than in its dialogue. But anyone with an educated eye and a child's love of hyperbole can take delight in Gilliam's images and incidents. Starlight spangles a lunar beach as the baron's ship drifts ashore for his interview with an Italianate creature (Robin Williams, unbilled and hilarious) who identifies himself as "the King of Everything -- Rei di Tutto. But you may call me Ray." The king's body is detachable from his head, which provokes schizophrenia of celestial proportions...
...largest PPV companies, Viewer's Choice (which reaches 5 million homes) and Request Television (more than 4 million), each offer customers a monthly program slate filled largely with movies. But the business's new boomlet has been propelled mainly by special events. Last June's heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks was sold to nearly 600,000 TV homes on a pay-per-view basis at an average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed...
...friends must be heroes as well as oafs; the new neighbors must be villains as well as victims. All of them are "neighbors from hell," but the old residents are revealed to have done the right thing, if for the wrong reasons. And so Dante, like the viewer, is left straddling a white picket fence, perched between admiration and an urge to move out of this neighborhood pretty darned quick...
...only for its beautiful and effective interweaving of visuals and dialogue, the film is well worth seeing. But more than just a "pretty movie," Pelle the Conqueror is one that engages the viewer in an emotionaly wrenching and intriguing story. It is certainly worthy of the many awards it has recieved-and more...