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Earth Girls is a movie that takes its cues from sources as disparate as The Wizard of Oz and Chantal Akerman's avant-garde French musical The '80s. But everything blends neatly in the witty, zippy script; everybody has a good time. Davis, a living windup doll, plays Everygal to Goldblum as he exercises his ingratiating leer. Carrey (a randy mime) and Wayans (with his turbo terpsichore) give unearthly pleasure. So does Earth Girls, the tastiest thing to come out of a space program since Tang...
...debut in Intermezzo; Marlene Dietrich saved her flagging career with Destry Rides Again; the Marx Brothers clowned in At the Circus; and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. Judy Garland, who was all of 16, was in only two pictures -- The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms -- but her giant talent and irresistible personality captured the screen and permanently touched the country's heart...
...like Charlie Chan in Reno and Mr. Moto in Danger Island, to name only two from 1939. To satisfy the insatiable public, the studios released 388 movies that year (compared with 349 in 1988), 378 in traditional black-and-white and ten, including Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, in that relatively new process called Technicolor...
...scriptwriter today dare to type a corny line like this? "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard, because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." The writers of The Wizard of Oz dared and thereby helped make a great film...
They thought that they were making movies, but they were really making magic in 1939, the most glittering twelve months of Hollywood's Golden Age. There was Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . . . on and on, with stars whose names have lasted a half-century...