Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighborhood called Little Italy." Glance at the evening paper and you will not see a young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant-Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) pays to a shoeshine wizard who knows everything about the Underworld-and about life after death, open-heart surgery and the fate of the Dodgers' pitching staff...
...museums every year are familiar with the big draws: the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk, the moon rocks, Archie Bunker's chair, the Hope diamond, the First Ladies' dresses, Fonzie's leather jacket, the ruby slippers that took Judy Garland back to Aunt Em in The Wizard...
That may be more than his film finally deserves. The plot involves the slow-dawning discovery by a corporate executive's widow (Jane Fonda) and a financial wizard (Kris Kristofferson) that her husband was murdered. She is also in danger because her husband discovered how the oil interests were quietly draining resources away from Wall Street. Neither performer is particularly believable. The romance that develops between them is unfeeling, a sop to the audience's conventional expectations. Kristofferson, in particular, lacks the kind of ruthless intelligence one expects of Wall Street wolves; he seems the last person anyone...
...been the Reagan Administration's glowing star, casting light on all the murky, mystifying tax and spending statistics that his wondrous computers at the Office of Management and Budget continually cranked out. He was the farm-bred, Harvard-educated wizard who would transform those numbers into the magic by which Ronald Reagan's economic recovery program would prove a smashing success. Even David Stockman's adversaries admired his effectiveness as a promoter of the Reagan cause. At his regular breakfast last week with Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Chief Economic Adviser Murray Weidenbaum, Stockman was delighted...
This is The Wizard of Oz for the '80s, alright. The Pythonic theme--nothing you know is sacred or even really there--suddenly seems a huge, monstrous thing to impose on kids like Kevin; he is left with only a sackful of Polaroids and two piles of ashes where his authoritative parents once stood. Gilliam leaves us with Black Humor when all along his theme had been gallantry and inquisitiveness. The guest stars have their fun, the midgets get back their divine employment. But Kevin is on his own in the world, with only a stack of postcards--enough...