Star Wars

Siskel and Ebert Defend Star Wars

Around Minute 6:55:

Siskel: "Wasn't your heart warmed even a little bit by Yoda?"
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Simon: "Well, yes, a little."

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John Simon is still alive.

#6 "God only knows where the notion that Miss Lansbury has class originated; perhaps her vestigial lower-middle-class English accent passes for that in our informed show-biz circles. She is, in fact, common; and her mugging, rattling-off or steam-rollering across her lines, and camping around merely make her into that most degraded thing an outré actress can decline into: a fag hag."

~16 Bitchy Comments From John Simon's Movies... 

!? #3 "The kids themselves, with the exception of Cathy Burns (Rhoda), are not particularly good actors, and Barbara Hershey (Sandy, and not a kid anymore) looks, regrettably, much better with her bikini top on than off. Miss Burns, on the other hand, is an extremely accomplished little actress, but also insuperably homely — she looks, in fact, like a pink beach ball with a few limbs and features painted on it. There is no excuse for Rhoda’s being a positive freak, and making us feel she is damned lucky to have been raped at all."

I can't figure out the movie for #3. 

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Found it. 

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The Winter Bird sounds like a nice children's book, Mr. Simon.