Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sings, the Other Doesn't. This is a nice film about women's liberation. But nice is unfortunately all. Yes, it does tell the story of two likeable and very different women, a wild-haired non-conformist pop singer (Valerie Mairess) and a reserved, soulful-eyed young mother (Therese Liotard) devoted to her two children. Yes, it does portray the lasting, supportive friendship between the two in a way that few films have examined women's relationships before, since movies have largely been a man's medium and most male directors don't have that experience to draw...
Carl Reiner's best films bear little resemblance to Oh God!. Where's Poppa?, for example, was pervaded by a manic hysteria, and peopled by feverish buffoons whose monomaniacal intensities constantly collided, resulting in sprawling calamities that were often exhaustingly funny. George Segal's wild-eyed sexual/homicidal obsessions (frustrated at every turn by his incessantly doddering mother, Ruth Gordon) produced scenes of comic genius, and in a lesser film, like The Comic, such moments successfully diverted attention from Reiner's maudlin tendencies in his quieter scenes. But in Oh God! the maudlin preponderates; Reiner chooses, for reasons...
Harvard diver Jamie Greacen provided the sparse reading-period crowd with its biggest thrill with his spectacular performance in the optional diving event, which he won with an impressive cumulative score of 335.15. Greacen's soaring airborne acrobatics elicited the only wild cheers from a crowd that endured an otherwise dull meet...
...film's ending is too abrupt, however, and fails to bring Tony's development to a realistic conclusion. It is all too clear that after two hours, director John Badham had decided he should bring the movie to a close. So after a particularly wild night at the disco, Tony and some friends are driving over the Verrazano bridge, a favorite latenight haunt. Stephanie has just dumped Tony, telling him she never really loved him, that she was only trying out "her act" on him. Bobby, the youngest of Tony's gang, is despondent because his girlfriend is pregnant. Everyone...
Newspapers and magazines went wild with new year lists: the best/worst of the year before, and what to expect in the year to come. Very few lines are worth reading, we think--after all, does it really matter what any newspaper's three critics thought were the ten best restaurants? However, Vincent Canby in the Times actually used the forum to make a valid point: with all the talk about Star Wars and escapism, it's worth remembering that people's reaction to the Cowardly Lion didn't tell anyone much about World...