Word: stud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Television would seem to have devoured the documentary film whole: in 90- second bites on the nightly news, in the lapel-grabbing journalism of 60 Minutes, even in the nature studies that now stud the pbs schedule. So why put nonfiction on the big screen? Because there are stories whose subjects, and filmmakers whose points of view, demand the isolation and intensity of the movie-house experience. One such story is The Times of Harvey Milk, winner of this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Its plot--all-American guy shoots the mayor of San Francisco...
...average prices for the best horses each year have multiplied since the mid-70s, fueled greatly by Arab petrodollars and favorable tax laws. The really big money lies in breeding; the Derby's approximately $300,000 winning payoff is peanuts compared to the potential return for the winner in stud fees and offspring sales. Syndications (partnerships behind a horse's stud results) for top stallions can run for $40 million and more. The Derby winner, no matter how fast, is almost invariably retired immediately after the other Triple Crown races, the Belmont and the Preakness. He then spends the rest...
...Angeles, plays like the Beat It video at feature length. Fandango sends five college guys on a West Texas spree. Heaven Help Us has five Roman Catholic schoolboys getting cute in the confessional and decapitating a statue of their school's patron saint. Mischief pairs a wimp and a stud in the small-town '50s. In Tomboy, Betsy Russell is a Flashdance- style mechanic who goes stock-car racing. In Vision Quest, Rocky pins Flashdance on the high school wrestling mat. One can find vagrant felicities in these films: a snap to the style of Tuff Turf; the bang...
...manager, says that she is "an absolutely first-rate judge of horseflesh." Among the stallions trotted out for her at Spendthrift were two Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. At Claiborne Farm she met the third living Triple Crown horse, Secretariat, before a groom brought out a retired stud at the Queen's request: the legendary Round Table, who was born to a horse bred at the royals' farm, Sandringham Stud...
...career, Steve Martin has a little problem too. In the '70s he was a stand-up-comic sensation. A dream of all-American vacuity with his careful coif, phosphorescent white jacket and conventionally handsome features, Martin came on like a silly Robert Redford, a would-be stud not quite as gorgeous or with it as he thought he was−but lots funnier. When Martin turned to feature films (with The Jerk in 1979), the challenge was to transfer the soul of this character, this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic-movie hero...