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FROM THE MOMENT the Montellis cruise up the driveway to enter their new home, we see that while big--mom, dad and four kids--this is not a very happy family. The short, hot-tempered dad (Burt "Get Outta Here Instamatically" Young) reveals his tendency to rule with a firm hand and a fast belt. He commands respect but not love...
...winsome lad who makes love to a lifesize, water-filled, clear plastic doll in the image of his beloved. In the mid-'70s Bartel made two manic car-chase movies, Death Race 2000 and Cannonball, whose plots inspired The Cannonball Run. For his presence in that film, Burt Reynolds was reportedly paid $5 million; for directing Death Race 2000, Bartel earned $5,000. Such are the rewards of B-plus moviemaking...
...notable move was reaffirming the choice of Richard Burt, an able but abrasive Haig loyalist, as Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. Burt's nomination had been held up because, Like Haig, he had irritated the White House staff. Says an Administration insider: "Shultz would have appeared intimidated by the White House if he had dumped Burt...
...most popular performer, who, Schonfeld said, was not a journalist. As soon as Schonfeld resigned, Turner started negotiating to get Freeman back. Turner kept Schonfeld on as a consultant and corporate board member, however, and as replacements he named a committee of key Schonfeld aides: Ed Turner (no relation), Burt Reinhardt and Robert Wussler, a tough-minded former president of CBS-TV. Wussler contends that Ted Turner will continue to stand apart from CNN's day-to-day journalistic operations. Explains Wussler: "He does not have time for it, and he knows that is where he would be most...
...Burt Reynolds plays the beleaguered sheriff who has tolerated the Chicken Ranch, in part because he loves Mona, the madam (Dolly Parton). One has never seen him so glumly tentative in a role. Parton plays Mona as if Mae West had been cryonically preserved but someone didn't quite finish the job of unfreezing her while restoring her to life. What is mostly missing is a sense of comic authority. Parton has interpolated a couple of her plaintive country songs, which do not fit the brassy Broadway banalities of Carol Hall's basic score. On the other hand...