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...requisite demonstration of power by the three meanies, who soon discover they have strength equal to that of Superman. At the White House they receive an unconditional surrender from a cowering President (who looks alarmingly like Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee), and aided by the enterprising earth-bound villian, Lex Luthor, they set out to find the only being standing between them and a happy reign of pain and degredation...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Look! In the Motel! It's... | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

...simpleminded parody of The Supercops and Serpico. We are to believe that the greatest service a policeman can do to stifle crime must be done while he wears a dress. As this dashing duo heroically traipses past Third Avenue, the scene shifts to London, where Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer). The Villian, has just blown up a department store. "There is no security," he rasps to UPI over the phone...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Nightmares | 4/15/1981 | See Source »

...ride is occasionally brilliant. Cast perfectly as Edmund, Brain McCue makes a consummate villian, treacherous and slimy. He plots with devilish wit, alternately the angry young bastard and the charming rogue, whose schemes overwhelm him. McCue is hilarious when he sulks in the front seat of the Lincoln or when he fakes a wound by splattering ketchup...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

Delicious. The perfect scene, the perfect villian, the perfect setting for some first-rate Sherlock Holmes sleuthing...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: The Missing Sleuth | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

...hearing was going on, that Harvard was lying again, that, essentially, here was another case of the people who were supposed to have the answers not having them. As it turned out, they were wrong--the hearing had been postponed. Harvard, being liberal, doesn't make an easy villian...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

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