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the towering miseries t
inherent to the musical t
Loretta Lynn's life stoi
among us who loathe
direction was stunning ii
good-naturedness, but it
worthwhile. Sissy Space
picture, is a sure bet to \
coming year and Tomm
me as being rather wooc
portrayal of Loretta's qu
Also deserving of pra
Banjamin," which prove
(Goldie Hawn) could
Abraham, David Zucke
which set a record for
minute howl of a mo'
Marble," which was the
Wambaugh novel; "Roi
Burt Reynold's participi
and Jeannot Szwarc's "
handedly kept alive th
fantasy in a single movie
TH
1. "GUYANA-CULT
hysterically distasteful i
theater screens in the pj
was having a group call
"Disco Suicide" over th<
as ghosts exist, every
being haunted by 913 of tl
2. "UP THE ACADEI
Lampoon and Mad's off
institution was a far cry
House," even though it
film in every way possi
one of the most beautiful
every 20 minutes or so tc
teenagers who made up
even cleavage such as
audience from succi mbi
preoccupation. Ron Lie!
top billing, had his na
potentially career-savi
slaughtered more career
3. "FATSO." To say thi
was a bust would be the
decidedly low-cal corned
infinite series of shots dei
and people getting upset
eating or crying. Bar
established, but her one
succeeded in drawing a b
I didn't think possible un
DeLuise vehicle lumbere
4. "THE BLUE LAGO
than brother and sister <
we ), are shipwrecked o
they grow up, eat guava*
With this unsavory cros:
and coffee-table pornogr
banality out of the arid h
blue skies of the South P
Acent on innocence hut w:
"Shields ? the Lolita of
beachcombers. With her
endless array of comemade
each and every lc
cerpted from a docume
dellos. A true atrocity, it
made me throw up.
5 "IN GOD WE TRUS1
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organized religion turned
to which about 15 minut
devoted, concerned the <
restore his bankrupt mt
padre didn't try to sol
financed this picture. The
in Hollywood history.
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of Dr. Hunter S. Thom
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ind exquisite depressions that are
)iography genre, this film version of
*y was irresistible , even to those
country music. Michael Apted's
i its mood, simplicity and downright
was the acting that made the film
ik, who did her own singing in the
vin every major acting award in the
y Lee Jones, who heretofore struck
len, actually topped Spacek with his
irky manager-husband. Doolittle.
lise are: Howard Zieff's "Private
id that a film with a sole female star
become a boxoffice smash; Jim
r and Jerry Zucker's "Airplane!,"
most laughs crammed into one 90vie;
Harold Becker's "The Black
best movie yet made from a Joseph
igh Cut," which almost made up for
ition in "Smokey and the Bandit II";
Somewhere in Time," which singlee
notion of blending romance and
E TEN WORST
OF THE DAMNED." The most
piece of exploitational garbage to hit
ast 50 years. The only trick it missed
ed the Kool-Aides sing a song called
? main and end credits. If such things
executive at Universal Pictures is
hpm fwirp niahtlv
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HY." Mad Magazine is no National
ensive send-up of life in a military
from National Lampoon's "Animal
tried feebly to emulate the earlier
ble. Barbara Bach, without questit n
women in the world, was trotted out
?fuel the fantasies of the horny male
the vast majority of the cast, but
hers wasn't enough to keep the
ng to the film's deadly spell of self)man,
the actor who originally had
me removed from the credits, a
ng decision in a movie that
s than Colonel Sanders did hens.
it Anne Bancroit's directorial debut
; understatement of the year. This
y was little more than a seemingly
picting people eating, people crying
l because someone else was either
icroft's point-of-view was never
unforgiveable failing was that she
ad performance from herself, a feat
til this pathetically misguided Dom
d into town.
ON." Two children, cousins rather
we couldn't have incest, now could
n a deserted tropical island, where
?, swim naked and eventually mate.
s between a Coral Seas travelogue
aphy, director Randal Kleiser took
alls of Hollywood and into the clear
acific. Kleiser tried to keep the acis
defeated by the casting of Brooke
le 1980's ? as one of his randy teen
beestung lips, darting blue eyes and
hither facial expressions, Shields
>ve scene look like it has been exntary
on cut-rate Indonesian bormade
Columbia Pictures rich and
l\ OH GIMME THAT PRIME TIME
Zeldman's mirthless parody of
out to be an unholy mess. The plot,
es of the movie's two hours were
* *
iiiriupis (>i a sex-starved monk to
mastery to solvency. Too bad the
icit money from the people who
jy must have been the easiest marks
FALO ROAM." The twisted legend
pson, creator and foremost prac
icome a
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ticioner of "Gonzo Journalism,'
screen by writer-director Art Lin
even for the briefest moment, to d
Muray, fresh from his successes
and "Meatballs," made an admire
into the character of Thompson, b
rickety script, desultory direction
that permeated the whole disgracc
Fi 'TAW'T CTOD TlIC MITCir
year ago, this misbegotten biogra
the poisonous pellet that sent it
screenplay, by the egomaniacal
Bronte Woodard, presented us wi
side of "Skatetown, U.S.A." and, <
by a lady (Nancy Walker), the pic
was deplorable. Every female ir
slapped around, insulted, taken t
all three. If, as advertised, this wa
480's," we have nine dreary years;
8. "SMOKEY ANI) THE BANI
that anyone would set out to make
a car chase, but that's exactly w
this disappointing sequel to one o
of the past decade. The second
been made for the solitary purp
music soundtrack album. No mat
not happening) onscreen, the aud
a never-ending string of the mo
imaginable. As for acting, Burt F
unlikeable in a movie and Sally F
to do.
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