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...Costa Rican squads into the quarterfinals. The quasi-mystical Serb disdains star quality for teamwork and emphasizes the Latin strategy of zigzagging moves over the British long-ball style. Above all, he makes his players believe in themselves against the world. "He's a mix of Richard Simmons and Yoda," says Lalas. "It requires a great leap of faith to follow him. Sometimes you have no idea what he is saying." Typical Yoda quote: "We don't know what we do, but what we do, we do good...
...made a dazzling debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25; he conquered Broadway with West Side Story and then endured the musical catastrophes of Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; he abandoned his long-suffering wife Felicia and spent his last years as the chain-smoking, emphysema-racked Yoda of the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Bernstein's life followed the trajectory of a cautionary tale with the lesson, whom the gods would destroy they first give too many talents...
...Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh). On his journey to Castle Nockmaar, he acquires a few worthy friends and foes: an outlaw warrior in the Han Solo mold (Val Kilmer), a dashing knight with Lando Calrissian's righteous swagger (Gavan O'Herlihy), a willful princess with martial guile (Joanne Whalley), a Yoda-like wizard (Billy Barty), an ancient sorceress -- Obi-Wan Kenobi's kid sister, perhaps -- struggling under a curse (Patricia Hayes) and a couple of impish brownies reminiscent of Artoo Detoo and See Threepio...
...devices from a dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style. A Frisco truck driver (Kurt Russell) and his Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes and beasties with red ones; the sword- flashing legerdemain and wind-whipping backflips of martial-arts movies; a tough guy who literally explodes from rage when his master dies; oh, and a giant uggy insect...
...triumph of the determined teen-age spirit over adversity. Like Rocky, it offers the spectacle of a young man punishing his body in order to aquire the skill and toughness to win a big fight against long odds. Like "the Star Wars saga, it provides him with a Yoda-like mentor full of gnomic instruction and inspiration in his struggle against evil. In short, The Karate Kid presents the smallest imaginable variations on three well-tested formulas for movie success...