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MALCOLM McDOWELL, in the title role, struggles to keep himself from drowning in this cesspool of a movie and fails. His Caligula is sufficiently cruel and sadistic, but the performance lacks wit and imagination. After a while, McDowell becomes as tiresome as the two-and-a-half-hour film itself. This is especially disappointing because, nine years ago, McDowell proved himself an excellent actor by tackling the almost impossibly difficult role of Alex in Stanley Kubrick's A Clock-work Orange. In that film he portrayed a character as villainous as Caligula but, mainly through the control of his extraordinary...
helped cover the budget for Secaucus: a preposterously low $60,000. He wrote, produced, directed and edited the film and plays - with wit and an edge of anger - a featured role. Sayles has a remarkable talent. Just as important, he has shown the ambition and initiative to bring some thing fresh to a movie industry on the ropes...
...unnoticed if campaign staffers had not thought of sending a mission to Peking as a means of showing the ticket's concern about foreign affairs. Reagan's staffers decided to send Bush, who had been a former envoy to Peking. No one on the staff had the wit or prescience to draw up a position paper to help either Bush or Reagan when tough questions about Taiwan came up on both sides of the Pacific...
...pass their time giggling over passages from the Song of Solomon, gorging themselves on "scrummy" (scrumptious) scones and honing their Olympian disdain for anyone not of good family. The school is a microcosm of colonial society: the rich Anglified girls lording it over a poor Aussie with a quick wit. Laura doesn't fit: she is too thin and gawky, too smart and eager. In an attempt to see Laura's world through her eyes, Director Beresford turns the other girls into vaudeville minxes and betrays a weakness for the ingratiating visual cliché. But the film sparks...
...each of the speakers will surely remind you. A real live opportunity to hear the pillars of the Harvard establishment expound on Harvard. Presidents Bok and Horner will welcome you to the company of not-yet-educated men and women. Dean Rosovsky will bring his dry and sometimes stinging wit along to give an address. (His address, by the way, is University Hall...