Original Publication: Newsweek, August 8, 1977 Last year’s “The Bad News Bears,” about a hapless Little League baseball team in California, directed by Michael Ritchie, was a new kind of…
Read moreOriginal Publication – Newsweek, August 8, 1977 The style of LA GRANDE BOURGEOISE is too elegantly overwrought for the story it tells. Beautifully crafted, the movie often plays like a…
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Original Publication – Newsweek, August 8, 1977 Secret Agent 007 is in bed somewhere in the Austrian Alps with a live female toy swathed in white mink when the taped…
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For over a year, one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, Francis Ford Coppola, had been shooting “Apocalypse Now,” a film about the “untouchable” subject of the Vietnam war. Life on the set – four different locations in the Philippines – also escalated quickly to apocalyptic dimensions.
Read moreOriginal Publication: Newsweek – May 10, 1976 The eternal flame at John F. Kennedy’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery shone directly onto the lens of the movie camera. Never before had…
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Original Publication: Newsweek – April 12, 1976 The Bad News Bears is easy to root for. It’s a smart-ass kids’ movie with grown-up views that would make the Hardy Boys blush,…
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