Word: scheider
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael J. Fox, Al Pacino, Roy Scheider and Donald Sutherland and several other celebrities are in town as guests of playwright David Mamet for a benefit performance to help Vietnam veterans...
...refuse, symbolically showing the value of working together. This action is supposed to stand as a sign for the rest of the world to follow. But it remains frustratingly unclear in the movie why the Soviet commander capitulates to the head of the American expedition, Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider), without any explanation...
...acting maintains a generally high level, but the limitations on character growth are written into the script. Roy Scheider turns in a respectable performance as Dr. Heywood Floyd, head of the American team, displaying his usual macho character and coolness in all situations. But the best acting in the movie definitely comes from John Lithgow '70, who portrays Walter Curnow, an engineer who is totally out of his element in a spacesuit. Playing the paranoid role, Lithgow at one point fumbles hilariously with the oxygen mixture controls on his spacesuit and floats helplessly in space hiccuping uncontrollably...
...movies are a machine that makes art. But what are we to make of films in which the machine is the main attraction? Burt Reynolds may be at the wheel of his Trans Am, Harrison Ford can maneuver his Millennium Falcon in hyperspace, Roy Scheider may occupy the cockpit of the Blue Thunder helicopter, but the hardware is the hero. It knows neither fear nor fatigue; it does the job it is programmed to do and never complains; if it is destroyed, a comradely clone can take its place. For a nation that has cause to doubt that nobody does...
...James Jimirro, a ten-year Disney veteran, has nearly 20 shows in development. One that will appear this fall is Five Mile Creek, a dramatic series set in Australia in the 1860s. Jimirro also plans to make six to eight movies a year. The first, Tiger Town, stars Roy Scheider as a fading phenom for the Detroit Tigers. It will air in October...