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More movie reviews of things I should have seen long before they showed up
on my television...

Hooper - ** (good ole boys and Joe Bob fans, ***)
Burt Reynolds plays, suprise!, Burt Reynolds. This time Burt is a stunt
man, growing old, but never up. Some good stunts, a relatively bizarre (but
uninspired) acting job by Robert Klein as the director. I didn't KNOW 4x4
trucks could go backwards at 55, ma! Honest! A good, clean, simple, fun
film.

Cat People - *+ (nastassia Kinski ***tilt***)
What can I say? I knew what I was getting when I rented it. Kinski's
shoulder blades can make an entire issue of Playboy slink away in
embarassment. Her acting in this was wooden enough that she could have done
better without reading the script, but really, who cares? I think there was
a plot, somewhere, but it didn't really bother to intrude on things too
much. Warning: rather graphic gore-- especially during the autopsy scene
(not recommended for watching over a pepperoni pizza, which I did...)

The Dresser - ***** (A first-- a perfect score)
I swore it would never happen, and it rarely does. Out of a possible 5
starts, I give the dresser all five. Superb performannces by Finney and
Courtney as an aged Shakespearean actor and his dresser (read slave,
servant, companion, faithful follower, and greatest fan). One of the most
unbelievable fascinating portrayals of theater life I have EVER seen. The
script is lucious, the filming is perfect, the lighting is amazing, and the
acting is unbelievable. In the small excerpts they gave us, Finney went a
long way towards redefining King Lear for me. Little of the movie IS the
play-- it is all about the dresser (who is the person in charge of getting
the star out there when he is supposed to be there) and how he beats,
cajoles, whines, yells, and, finally, loves the old man out to a
performance. Finney, as the old and very tired actor, is superb in his
portrayal of a man with a sense of duty and an addiction to the theater who
at the same time has an edge of senility, frenzied paranoia, failing
health, exhaustion, and a general wish to sit down and relax. Electric. See
it. As someone who firmly believed that the Big Chill was THE movie, I have
to tell you that this film makes it look bush league. It does the Bard and
the theater very proud.

Bill Cosby. Himself! -- ***
Actually a concert style film of his standup routine, Bill is as funny as
ever. If you like him, you'll love this film-- lots of kid and wife jokes,
always poking fun but never breaking the skin. 

Richard Pryor, here and now -- **
Another concert comedy film. If you like Richards drug and raunch oriented
humor it's worth it. I found it rather flat and uneven at times, definitely
not showing his material to all of its potential.

More later, including the long threatened 'Attack of the Killer tomatoes'
chuq
-- 
From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach
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(Editors note: Bistromatics is NOT a typo. Bistromathics is the study of
math on an italian waiters checkpad. Bistromatics is the study of Italian
cooking on females of the human species. Please quit sending me mail)

  I'd know those eyes from a million years away....