Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been plenty of playwright absurdists, psychologists, realists or surrealists. But when it came to the drama of ideas or a pure pyrotechnic display of language, there was only Tom Stoppard. And Stoppard is a pussycat compared with that tiger named Bernard Shaw. like his disciple Bertolt Brecht, Shaw regarded plot as the sentimental opiate of the middle-class theatergoer. In Man and Superman, he simply inverts the boy-meets-girl formula: woman wants man, man runs for his bachelor life, woman gets man. As it happens, the man, Jack Tanner (Ian Richardson), is an incendiary charmer with a blowtorch...
...pubes want to get some idea of what the thrill was all about. Right now nothing caters to the twin needs of Beatlemaniacs quite as emphatically or successfully as a hot new show on Broadway called, with roaring show-business logic, Beatlemania. Two months after-it began, bereft of plot and without benefit of an official opening night, Beatlemania is playing nightly to packed houses. The stars of the show are four Beatles look-and sound-alikes, who during the evening play and sing 29 Beatles songs. Meanwhile, on a series of scrims and screens, with help from running printout...
...Plot seems snipped from previous installments. Bond tangles with female Russian spy: From Russia with Love. They team up against seagoing megalomaniac who captures nuclear subs belonging to both East and West and plans to destroy world: shades of Diamonds Are Forever. Lots of underwater stuff: Thunderball. Also skiing: On Her Majesty 's Secret Service. (Think about: Curt Jurgens, as megalomaniac, pronounces O07's name Bund. This hint he's crypto-Nazi? Farfetched, but can anything be too farfetched in a film like this...
...strong and mysterious, therefore scary to landlubbers. Television documenta ries have taught us that the whale has a complex language and, since he may also be monogamous, perhaps a human like emotional life. It is easy, therefore, to anthropomorphize the whale and then cobble up the kind of plot line that runs sluggishly through Orca...
...Game. Yes, this is a sports film, the subject being big-time college basketball. Yes, it demonstrates once again that amidst all the pious talk about amateur ideals, colleges pay off their stars under the table and exploit them just dreadfully. With that much of the banal plot laid out, it perhaps hardly needs to be added that the hero (Robby Benson, who wrote the script with his father, Jerry Segal) starts out as an absurdly innocent freshman. Slowly he becomes aware of the wicked ways of the world, refuses to join in the general cynicism, and emerges from...