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...time. Several light-years behind were the rest of the year's top ten: On Golden Pond ($120 million), Rocky III ($119 million), An Officer and a Gentleman ($109 million), Porky's ($107 million), Star Trek II ($85 million), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ($74.5 million), Poltergeist ($74 million), Chariots of Fire ($62 million) and Annie ($58 million...
...Poltergeist. The hell-mouth side of Spielberg's suburban diptych: vengeful spirits drive a middle-class family beyond bananas. The film delivers honest special-effects shocks without forfeiting its good nature. Under Tobe Hooper's direction Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson shine as the dogged mom and the heroic-in-spite-of-himself...
...keep their mouths shut is bound to fail, this premise will seem far fetched. For as the story develops, we see that hundreds are involved in running the research complex. Nevertheless, the picture is stylishly made and suspenseful, with the distinct advantage of having JoBeth Williams (the mom in Poltergeist) as a sheriff investigating the killings aided by a burnt-out New York City detective (Robert Urich, TV's Dan Tanna). She's spunky and believable, and she can make you care about her professional problems, her sputtery love life and - almost - a crime wave in the bovine...
Just 41/2 years after a little matter of embezzlement cost him the top job at Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, 60, is out of a job again, fired as chairman of United Artists. Of the 24 films he initiated, eleven have been released. Only one, Poltergeist, is a major hit (box office grosses of $48 million to date). Meanwhile, there is the imminent publication of Indecent Exposure, a meticulous recounting of the embezzlement scandal. But Author David McCintick, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, does not think his book had much to do with Begelman's latest downfall. "There...
...Flashiest streak for the industry: the past six weeks, every one of which earned $100 million in the U.S. Moviegoers were still lining up to see Rocky III ($75 million in six weeks), Conan the Barbarian ($39 million in eight weeks), Spielberg's suburban gothic chiller Poltergeist ($39.5 million in five weeks), and the surprise hit of the spring, the basement-budget Porky's ($100 million in 16 weeks...