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...newfound fascination with female action heroes. A hit could generate a succession of sequels, just the way Bond has. But the history of video-game transfers from the computer screen to the big screen is dismal. Remember "Wing Commander," starring Freddie Prinze Jr.? How about "Super Mario Bros." with Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper? Probably not, or at least not fondly. Hard-core game fans, more familiar with controlling action than with merely observing it, are liable to sit in their local cineplex with itchy trigger thumbs. So Paramount is pulling out all the stops to make its flick...
...Brill Building-type songwriters for hire, which included some of the finest pop-music talent America ever produced, were still cranking out songs by the yard in a last-gasp bid for teen immortality. The time was ripe for a naïve and yet monstruously successful hybrid, and Bob Rafelson knew...
...couldn't last, and it didn't. The Monkees' golden age ended, appropriately, with the concept carried to its logical extreme, a Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson film called "Head" that was essentially about the destruction of the group. The Monkeees were not a Woodstock kind of band, and most definitely not a post-Altamont proposition. But for a brief span, they were a bona fide phenomenon, a brilliant, opportunistic creation that somehow also managed to encapsulate the giddy, innocent sincerity...
...bank will take over half of the space Bob Slate's currently occupies, and Niles has offered the stationary store the opportunity to expand into the current Grafton site...
...Austin Carr of Notre Dame scored 289 points in seven games from 1969-71 for a whopping 41.3 scoring average. He's trailed in the top five by four NBA Hall of Famers: Bill Bradley, Princeton (33.7); Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati (32.4); Jerry West, West Virginia (30.6); and Bob Pettit...