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...might as well be commenting on the film. With his own splendid appearances confined to the beginning and the end and with the dragon turning up only intermittently, much of the story revolves around a sorcerer's apprentice who is making his first stab at monster stabbing. As Galen, Peter MacNicol has some funny, puzzled bits when his new-found magical powers either fail him entirely or run out of control. But on the whole, he is this year's leading nominee for the Dean Jones blandness award. Caitlin Clarke as a girl in boy's clothing...
...street photographer sells splendid $6.00 visions of New York
This is all standard equipment, but the technicians responsible for the Bond films' felicities-car chases, aerobatics, all the sophisticated paraphernalia of Saturday-matinee thrills-have devised some splendid optional features for For Your Eyes Only. There is a funny-brutal pentathlon of alpine sports: cross-country skiing with hired assassins; a two-man ski jump with the competitors gouging each other in midair; downhill racing at gunpoint; a bobsled run on skis; ice hockey using players as pucks. Director Glen has kept the plot moving briskly, and, in several action sequences, clipped a frame or two from within...
...penned a splendid processional, all pomp and circumference, for Brian Blessed as Old Deuteronomy, the group's sage and patriarch. For Elaine Paige, who was the original West End Evita and here plays a tattered cat of the evening named Grizabella, Lloyd Webber wrote the show's first hit single, a melancholy bolero called Memory...
...Ramsay Mac Donald. There was the Zimmermann telegram that pushed the U.S. into the first World War, and the letter General Douglas MacArthur sent Congressman Joe Martin from Korea indirectly attacking the Truman Administration, after which Truman directly attacked the general, and fired him. Truman of course wrote a splendid impulsive letter to Paul Hume, the Washington Post music critic, after Hume had savaged a concert of Margaret's. But the impulse was canny since Truman knew that every father in the country would be steaming on his side...