Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Testifying in court last week, FBI Agent Paul King gave a startling description of how Thevis was supplied with funds from his porno business while he was on the lam. Meanwhile, new charges piled up against him. In June he was indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta for the murder of two competitors in the porn business. The indictment gave this account of the killings: Thevis shot Kenneth Hanna in November 1970 and then stuffed him in the trunk of his own Cadillac. But Thevis bungled the job by locking up the car keys with the corpse. He asked...
...sweet magician named Corky (Anthony Hopkins) bombs before audiences until he adds ventriloquism to his act. His mannequin Fats, whom his agent (Burgess Meredith) calls "the first X-rated dummy on the block," is everything Corky is not -- bossy, crude, with a mouth that should be washed out with Pine-Sol. The crowds love him, and Corky seems headed for the top and a T.V. contract -- until, inexplicably, he balks at taking a medical exam required by the network. Panicked by his agent's reassurances that he's only scared of success, Corky flees with Fats to the Catskills, where...
...relationship with Peggy deepens, Corky confesses that he's not so much afraid of success, but of failure. Soon, however, he has something else to be scared of -- his agent, having tracked him down, catches him and Fats arguing violently over Peggy, and resolves to get Corky to a doctor. Fats doesn't care for this plan at all. Following his suggestion, Corky bops the agent over the head -- with Fats -- and dumps the body in the lake. From then on, the blood never stops flowing; some characters even die twice...
...other's eyes, kiss, then exchange a long look, a bedroom scene is obviously going to follow -- and indeed, the camera cuts to a pair of naked bodies (or naked backs, anyway) rolling around in soft focus. The structure of Goldman's script is equally transparent; he shows the agent telling the story of Corky's life to a T.V. exec, a clumsy means of providing the audience with background material. In addition to these cliches, the movie sabotages many potentially chilling moments. While Corky drags the dead agent to the lake, the camera cuts so frequently to close...
...Corky's agent (called the Postman because he always delivers), Burgess Meredith adds a few Yiddish mannerisms to his trainer role in Rocky. Despite the film's effort to stifle Ann-Margret under bulky sweaters, her performance as Peggy Ann shines with just the right mixture of warmth and wistfulness. Hopkins and she play well together, both...