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...performer master the art of kingship after a rather silly accident has wiped out all the more logical candidates for the job? Peter O'Toole as Willingham, his private secretary, keeps humming a few bars of the right tune. But a regal song is just not one Ralph can fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Golly, Your Majesty | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...RECIPE is simple enough: Combine one part humor with three parts bombast, mix in a double dose of double entendre and two bushels of fake boobs. Sprinkle liberally with groaning-bad puns, then leave in a hot theatre until half-baked...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: HPT 143 Safari Sagoodi Is Pretty Darn Goodi | 2/21/1991 | See Source »

...Multinational Forces, which features a variety of war scenarios. Released on the day the war started, the 300-page collection was an immediate hit. But some of the scenes of combat are improbable, showing Japanese and German soldiers participating in the conflict and U.S. forces staging a fake attack on fellow warriors to jump-start the war. The Japanese, however, prove to be inept on the battlefield. In one scene a band of soldiers engrossed in pornographic magazines take a wrong turn in the desert and manage to get out of their explosives-laden truck just before it accidentally blows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Comic-Book War | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...Theresa's chatty friend, Lucienne Lester has the misfortune of playing a completely superfluous character. Still, her comic energy and annoyingly fake southern accent liven up an otherwise dreary second act. The most skilled actor of the four, McDonald brings focus and commitment to her role. Although she quickly establishes the character of a tightly-coiled middle-age career woman, McDonald appears too late in the play. And her character's final confrontation with her daughter is so unconvincingly written as to be almost unwatchable...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Some Secrets Should Not be Told | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

...Normandy invasion would be directed toward the Pas-de-Calais, and it worked. The Soviets are the masters of military wile, although they do foul up at times. In the early 1970s, the U.S. spotted a Soviet "submarine" bent by a storm, a giveaway that the vessel was a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoys: Tanks but No Tanks | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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