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Just to make sure that Superman III will have legs of steel at the box office, the film's producer has come up with a co-Caped Crusader: Richard Pryor, 41. In a part the folks at DC Comics never dreamed of, Pryor plays Gus Gorman, a computer wizard who dons tablecloth and skis for a lame demonstration of his own superpowers. Sm3 takes mild-mannered Clark Kent back to his high school reunion and a rekindled romance with Lana Lang, played by Annette O'Toole, 30, (Cat People). O'Toole may be beautiful...
...election year. A majority in the Senate, possibly to be echoed in the House, proceeds along the lines of an entertaining but abject logic: STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN. The sponsors of the amendment to mandate balanced federal budgets have flocked to the Constitution, as to the Wizard of Oz, to ask for a superego, to plead for the discipline that they have been unable to enforce upon themselves. It is an evasive and unworthy and essentially political exercise. The oldest living constitution in the world should not be dragged onstage to perform in such charades. It is undignified...
...wisest, oldest owl peers omnisciently from his sepulcher of cobwebs. A clumsy crow trips over his own feet and executes a dazzling arabesque. Genius-IQ rats, escapees from deadly experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), live in an underground palace as glimmering and precise as the Wizard's wonderful Oz. Our heroine, the lady mouse Mrs. Brisby, enlists the rats' aid to save her family from imminent death; she falls down a hole and into a world of effulgent psychedelia. The Bluth artists boast that more than 600 colors were used in the 1.5 million...
...just as the use of the home computer depended on the marketing of interesting software, the videodisc player's consumer popularity awaits the creation of enticing disc software and increased awareness of the computer in the home. It should be understood, says M.I.T.'s video wizard An drew Lippman, that "the videodisc is peripheral to your personal computer, not the televison set." And that the admonition "Look but don't touch" applies to oil paintings, not TV screens...
...Washington, D.C., an elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard of Oz." In Atlanta, two schoolgirls are still sobbing as they leave the theater, then segue into a spirited argument over who cried more. Back at the Cinerama Dome, the closing credits for E. T. roll by to one more standing ovation. The moviegoers may also have been applauding themselves...