Movies

July, 1982

Superproducer Ray Stark has made mostly smart moves with Annie (Columbia). The unendurable long-run Broadway musical has picked up a lot of speed, style and pizzazz as big-screen entertainment. Eons ago, when I staggered out of the stage show to get a stiff drink--and maybe burn down an orphanage--I felt as if a large, scruffy dog had been licking my face for a couple of hours. Let's just admit that a musicalized Little Orphan Annie was simply not for me--besides which, the Charles Strouse--Mart...