Jacob V. Lamar
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Coulda Been a Contenda
M ICHAEL CIMINO GOT LUCKY. Back in 1978, Vietnam was just becoming hot movie material, Cimino, the spunky young director
The Celtic Twilight
IN OUTLINING his moral code. Brendan Behan said" I respect kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to
Child's Play
T HE MOST EVIDENT PROBLEM of this production is an environmental one. Katherine Kean's rendition of Ibsen's A Doll's House
Blood and Sex and Chivalry
H ERE INBOSTON, the most intriguing thing about John Boorman's Excalibur --the new film version of the legend of King
Happy Loving Couples
T HE ORIGINAL La Cage Aux Folles was a harmless, if subtly naughty delight. In fact, it could have made
Polanski Prettified
W HAT TESS needs is an introduction by Alistair Cooke. He'd lend Roman Polanski's lush adaption of Thomas Hardy's Tess
The Bronx Through Blue Eyes
C ALL IT THE Deer Hunter Quandary. In 1978, Micnael Cimino presented his "contemporary" epic of men at war--in this
Little Steps for Little Feet
W ELCOME to Tasty Meadows, the middle-American MunchkinLand where the massive shopping center is the primary gathering place, where television-watching
The Intelligent Rodent
W OODY ALLEN--in his quirky wisdom--spoke for at least two generations of disillusioned and neurotic Western intellectuals when he said,
Equine Delight
E QUUS IS dangerous dramatic territory. Its harsh terrain overflows with traps--gaping, bottomless craters of existentialism, sexual repression, and religious