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'Rocky III' corny, but works
MICHAEL GEBERT Contributing reviewer
Whether "Rocky III" is better than its predecessors, I'm not sure. It is, however, the one that comes closest to giving the audience a sense of what it's like to fight a world heavyweight championship.
By now, Sylvester Stonehall is the audience's every reaction figured out. He knows exactly when and where to react, but he doesn't have a audience to a quivering, beaten pulp.
The squeeze is on in "Rocky III." Disco music blares, pieces are amplified a la "Raging Bull," and one big scene between Rocky and his wife, in which she tells him essentially to win one for the Gipper, is even shouted out sound of waves pounding the beach. Has any movie ever been this intense?"
THE PROBLEM WITH making sense of movies that have to end each time in a boxing ring is how to introduce various characters and situations in the James Bond films. For "Rocky"
III. "Stallone had the next best thing—a vicious, scary-looking fighter called "Clubber Lang," played by a fellow named "Mr. T."
in a very well done opening montage, we see Stallone reaping the benefits of his championship, doing American Express commercials and the like, while Lang trains in various picture- enque ways.
Rocky's going soft. He dresses well, he enjoys his family, but he's not the fighter we knew. Lang, on the other hand, is very different on the cast of "Cat People" and win.
The problem is that Lang's somewhat deficient in the milk-of-human-kindness category. Rocky does charity benefits, but Lang is an arrogant, hateful humour. And Lang can be good-looking, gooey-gooey this time, but with this guy running around, who can complain?
When they finally meet in the ring, Lang demolishes Rocky. That loss, in addition to the death of his beloved trainer, Mickey, nearly does poor work on the rooftop. He who bears a grudge against Lang, Soon, the man from whom Rocky won the
world championship is training him to win it back and, at the same time, shows us all how to believe in ourselves.
IT STOUNDS CORNY and it is, but "Rocky III" works. I wasn't on my feet cheering when Rocky scored a blow. I find that hard to do when the blow has hit me. If I get the ball out it hit the screen, yet that is, of course, the key to the whole thing.
Stallone's screenplay is brilliant. I don't mean that it contains stunning character revelation or witty dialogue, but that it unmerely pulls the audience along exactly as it wishes—we cheer when Stallone wants us to.
That could be manipulative. In the first film, it definitely was. By now, though, Stallone knows better than to have the bleeding Rocky calling out for Adrian (Talia Shire) in the middle of Madison Square Garden.
The friendship of Rocky and Apollo Creed is believable because the two are still antagonists. The death scene of Rocky is the most moving for its restraint.
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'Nicholas Nickleby' awarded 4 Tonys
**NEW YORK——"The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickley," the marathon 8-hour production that cost $20 a ticket, won Tony Awards last night as the best play in Broadway's 1983-84 season and for best actor, best director and best scenic design, "Dreamgirls" and "Nine" shared it awards for musicals.
"Nicholas Nickley" had entered the 35th annual Tony Award ceremonies as the heavy favorite for best play and won out over "Crimes of the Heart," "Master Harold . . . and the Boys" and "The Dresser."
"Nicholas Nickley," the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Charles Dickens' work, played only a limited engagement. It sent theater agents who could afford the ticket price to the heart of early 18th-century London
David Edgar wrote the adaptation
"Nine," which deals with Italian film director Guido Contini and the score of women in his life, won best musical, best director for a musical for "Nine."
Although ticket sales in the 1982-83 season hit a record of $222 million, the season nevertheless was among the drearest in recent memory.
Spiraling production costs, a lack of bell-ring shows and substantially reduced attendance cut into the bottom line.
Only 48 shows were presented during the season that just ended, compared with 60 in the 1960-81 season.
The advent of the $40 ticket for a musical and $30 for a play was the chief reason for the dip in attendance. Add to that state of the economy and the availability of Broadway's best on cable television and videotape stores for home viewing, and the outlook for Broadway's future is bleak.
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