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...minutes of the final bout of III covered 14 pages. Says Stallone: "The fight choreography is very precise. Miss a step and you're in for a detached retina." In the three Rocky films the pace of the last round has escalated dramatically. The fi nal round in Rocky contained 35 blows, had 75 and III an amazing 130-in the same amount of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

After the awards ceremony on closing night, the huge movie screen filled with the letters E.T., and 2,500 merchants and moviemakers became dreamers again. Steven Spielberg had brought his sci-fi romance to Cannes for its world premiere, and throughout the day he had loped down the Carlton corridors dodging the dozens of would-be interviewers, photographers and starlets, all cadging for a moment with the world's most successful director. In the Palais des Festivals he heard applause erupt throughout the screening and watched an audience of grim professionals laugh and cry after two weeks of wheeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Movie Marathon at Cannes | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

Black holes have attracted a lot of attention in the past few years, spawning pinball games, adventure movies, and dozens of sci-fi novels. Hawking says he's very glad to see all the popular interest, but he's not always so pleased with the form it takes. For instance. Walt Disney invited him to be a consultant for its film. "The Black Hole." Although he turned them down, he did accept an invitation to the movie premier. "It was an awful film," he says...

Author: By Matthew L. Meyerson, | Title: The Radiance of the Mind | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

...fines. Her alleged crime: consistently checking in to her office at 11 a.m. and leaving at 1 p.m., thus working only two of the six daily hours required. Alessandro Vigneri, 29, police claim, should have been handling baggage at Fiumicino Airport instead of working in his own elegant hi-fi store in nearby Ostia, when the cops showed up to woof and tweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Standing Army | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...across the screen in a two-piece bathing suit or a skimpy pair of short. I would not be surprised if that were a plug for her Latest venture into the literary world June Fonda's Workout Book. All those years of campaigning for Tom Hayden and making set-fi poem films for Roger Vadim have not taken their toll on Jane. It is a good plug...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: On Golden Caramel | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

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