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...most important character to watch, in true Star Trek tradition, is the villain. Star Trek Creator Eugene Roddenberry, 57, is famous for introducing horrible monsters who are searching for a little understanding to make them un-horrible. While the film's script is under tight lock and key, it is safe to speculate, as does Actor Leonard Nimoy, the pointy-eared Mr. Spock, "that we eventually find our antagonist is searching as well." At first the Enterprise will be fighting what looks like a cloud of electrically charged whipped cream, but the monster is hiding its true nature...
...money to shove dolls, shirts, lunchboxes and ball-point pens into an already garish, mindless popular culture? John Williams has composed his worst and most blatantly derivative score, and among the actors, Brando is inexcusably wasted as Superman's father-saint, and Gene Hackman is embarrassing as the campy villain--is it possible that this once-gripping character actor has lost every drop of style he ever possessed, or was he just miscast in a role that cried out for a polished ham (a Brando, an Olivier, a George C. Scott)? Only Christopher Reeve radiates from within...
Moscow views China's opening to the West as potentially threatening and sees Brzezinski as the principal villain in a plot to set up an anti-Soviet alliance involving China, Japan and NATO. Brzezinski rejects that view: "A China that is increasingly modern, increasingly capable of dealing with its large number of people, increasingly a factor in stability both in its region and in the world as a whole-a China that is strong and secure-that is a China we would like to see. We do not see cooperation among China, the U.S., Western Europe and Japan...
...stocking feet, Ann-Margret is a piece of cake for Bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, who weighs in at 215. In fact, both stars of Hal Needham's upcoming comedy western, The Villain, are trim and fit. Says Arnold: "Ann-Margret can run six miles without breathing hard." Only good form, of course, to hold the third bankable name in the cast up for praise, too. "Kirk Douglas is very muscular and lean and in great shape," judges Schwarzenegger. "I've never seen him step onto a horse, he jumps." Oh, and the horse! It's actually six look...
...Psycho or any of the other horror movies it ineptly rips off The film tells the story of a psychotic ventriloquist (Anthony Hopkins) whose dummy "orders" him to kill. For two hours the audience must unwillingly suspend disbelief while the other characters take their sweet time in unmasking the villain. There is no pretty scenery or hot sex to relieve the intervening tedium...