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...MOON OVER PARADOR...
...sometimes merry and bright director Paul Mazursky flunked this test in Moon over Parador, for he and Co-Writer Leon Capetanos had a nice idea. An actor named Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss), who has worked up a party- stunt imitation of the mythical Parador's strongman, is working in that country on the day el Jefe dies of a heart attack. Recruited to replace him by the ruling families, who fear a revolution, Jack finds, as others before him have, that playing President is an actor's dream: all entrances and cheering multitudes...
...Julia). The trio are game performers, but their energy cannot compensate for the lack of funny lines and well-constructed scenes. It may be that Mazursky was overcome by a sincerity attack and decided to send an earnest political message. In any event, this is a pale and waning Moon...
...owner and operator of the Palm Beach Press. "They don't have to get dolled up, and if the interview gets nasty, they can cut you off." Boutique Owner Stone marvels at his chums' newfound nesting instincts. "Boy, our crowd has matured," he says. "Thank God, on a full moon we still break...
...gaze is usually impenetrable and impatient, but on this night his brown eyes glistened with moisture. His smile is generally a measured half-moon, but on this night his mouth widened into a toothy grin. From the moment he ascended the multi-tiered podium in Atlanta, before he uttered a single syllable, the Democratic nominee seemed a man transformed. Punching the air in triumph, blowing kisses to his wife: these were not the metronomic gestures of a soulless technocrat. Could that be Michael Dukakis, the unflappable exponent of cool reason, choking on his words? Yes, there was a catch...