Word: gidget
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...stimulate a mass taste for the Gallic product, Toscan du Plantier's company is planning a February release of one of its biggest hits, La Boum, which can be compared to the Gidget movies that appealed to American teen-agers in the '60s. Similar films will follow, all dubbed into English, and by the end of 1983, there will be, inevitably, something called La Boum II. By 1984, presumably, Toscan du Plantier will know whether he has a La Boum III or Le Bust...
...trapped in a one-industry, two-bit, sexist little town. She marries a muscle-bound teddy-bear, but she only comes to value herself through a friendship with a New York Jew labor organizer. There's no sex, no racial problems, and pretty simple politics--it sounds like "Gidget goes to Harlan Country"--but thanks to some good acting and direction, it is much more effective than feminist self-discovery movies in the vein of 'An Unmarried Woman or One Sings the Other Doesn...
...trapped in a one-industry, two-bit, sexist little town. She marries a muscle-bound teddy-bear, but she only comes to value herself through a friendship with a New York Jew labor organizer. There's no sex, no racial problems, and pretty simple politics--it sounds like "Gidget goes to Harlan County"--but thanks to some good acting and direction, it is much more effective than feminist self-discovery movies in the vein of An Unmarried Woman or One Sins the Other Doesn...
...longer shocks me--the sight of Sir Laurence Olivier pounding away at a French maid in The Betsy destroyed any illusions I might have entertained about artistic integrity. But the opposite situation--watching a former TV sit-com starlet metamorphose into a first-rate actress--amazed me. Expecting "Gidget Goes to Harlan County," I was surprised, impressed and moved by Sally (Flying Nun) Field's performance in Martin Ritt's new film, Norma Rae. She delivers a powerful shaded performance as Southern woman who slowly learns to value herself. Playing a sassy, kicked-around mill worker, Field brings an almost...
...that Tatum O'Neal is no longer a kid, what is to be done with her? At 14, this actress is too old to make another Paper Moon or Bad News Bears, yet too young to sashay about in an R-rated remake of Gidget Goes Hawaiian. Tatum is in a real fix, all right, and International Velvet doesn't offer her any help...