Word: yorkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yorkin thinks so. And, as director of this summer's flop Arthur 2 on the Rocks, he should know. Yorkin is steamed at critics who torpedoed his movie for its portrait of an insouciant inebriate. "Arthur is a fantasy , character," he spumes, "just like Roger Rabbit. But that movie is all about drinking, and it's being called one of the great movies of all time...
...Yorkin may be ignoring a few variables: that sequels often fall on their prats, that Stars Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli have been on a 0-for-ever streak since the original Arthur in 1981, that critics didn't make Who Framed Roger Rabbit a hit, and they didn't break Arthur 2. Still, Yorkin deserves sympathy for getting caught in a zeitgeist warp. Seven years ago, at the dawn of the Reagan era, a movie drunk could seem a sweet anachronism, a throwback to giddier times with fewer responsibilities. Today Americans know there is a price to be paid...
...field of prime-time television, Bud Yorkin has acquired what one could only classify as Bigfoot status. In conjunction with 8 to 11 guru Norman Lear, Yorkin developed, as his press release so modestly proclaims, a string of record breaking hits: "Sanford and Son," "Maude," "Good Times," "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Archie Bunker's Place." Commercial triumphs all, these Yorkin-Lear formula sit-coms were, in retrospect, surprisingly devoid of the socially relevant subject matter so current in many current series...
...tasteful bravado were his two most recent cinematic exploits, the dull-edged Blade Runner and the utterly forgetable Deal of the Century. Thus, prior to the release of his latest chef d'oeuvre, the largely critically acclaimed Twice in a Lifetime, one had to wonder whether or not Yorkin had a chance of making it in the eighties...
Critics Jay Carr, Judith Crist, Leonard Maltin and of course Siskel and Ebert have now found such qualms are without foundation. With a directorial sleight of hand, a cast of seasoned pros and a cinematographer who can make suburban Seattle look like the Elysian Fields, Yorkin is able to turn a rather tired story of divorce and readjustment into what the such critics are calling this year's Terms of Endearment. Whatever one thinks of the movie itself, the man does know how to throw one heck of a tea party...