Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably know, our darling, huggable Governor Eddy King is responsible for raising the drinking age to 20. This will complicate things. If you want to purchase liquor in the state, you must theoretically have either a Mass. Driver's license, of a special Mass. drinking card that will cost you $5, issued by a department headed by one of King's cronies. Most places--except for Father's Six, a townie dive--don't card you unless your voice cracks when you ask for the Wild Turkey, but during Freshman Week places in the Square may be a little more...
Since this was TV, the answer is not hard to guess. Buddy's decision to remain chaste was realistic for a girl her age. Going to bed with Zack also might have been realistic, except that television's conservatism, especially in hit series, ruled it out. The show was not really about making a choice; it was a coy and irritating tease...
Where McNichol's Buddy role forces her toward cuteness, Lane is allowed to play a real kid. She is Lauren, an American child living in Paris, who falls in love with Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), a French boy just her age. Parents get in the way, but the children find an ally in an elderly French windbag (played foxily by Laurence Olivier) who says that he is a retired diplomat, but who turns out to be an unretired pickpocket...
Linda runs the danger of being typecast forever as a tough runt, which is exactly what she plays in her latest film, The Wanderers, a campy teen-age gang movie in which her boyfriend is a shaven-headed, 6-ft. 6-in., 425-lb. tough named Terror. One scene required her to climb a high fence, and she notes, with satisfaction, that she rejected the director's offer of a double. She has a daredevil's face, marked by a scar that runs from the bridge of her once broken nose, across her right eyelid and down nearly...
Lately, no one has used children so well, or so lovingly, as François Truffaut. Jean-Pierre Léaud-one of Agee's "perfect people"-found the full range of adolescent feeling in The 400 Blows. The roots of the performance could be traced to Jean Vigo, whose Zero for Conduct (1933), made with no professional kids, is still the screen's greatest poem to youthful anarchy. The 400 Blows exerted a strong influence on George Roy Hill, who in 1964 made The World of Henry Orient, which is about two lovesick Manhattan schoolgirls. As Merrie...