cbf@allegra.UUCP (10/19/83)
The Bogdanovich/Gazzara/Hepburn movie in question is, I believe,
called *They All Laughed*. I remember it came out last year,
but didn't get the reviews it needed to survive.
Finally, I went back to "Loose Tails" and dug up the orginal quote
from Bloom County's nonpareil penguin Opus, during his stint as a
film critic for The Bloom Beacon. So imagine him at the typewriter.
First frame: "George Phblat's new film, `Benji Saves the Universe',
[but feel free to substitute your favorite overrated
space epic]
has brought the word `BAD' to news levels of badness."
2nd frame: "Bad acting. Bad effects. Bad everything. This bad
film just oozed rottenness from every bad scene...
Simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible
badness."
3rd frame: [He looks distraught]
4th frame: "Well maybe not that bad, but Lord, it wasn't good."
Berke Breathed
--Charles (decvax!allegra!cbf)