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More surprising still, considering that it will be shown opposite such fluff as Charlies Angels, is the harrowing portrayal of life and death in the trenches. CBS deserves praise for showing it, particularly during a sweeps week, and it seems almost harsh to add that the result, though often good, does not measure up to that primitive Lew Ayres talkie of nearly half a century...
...either he or Director Delbert Mann, who has chosen a flat, documentary style, has not managed to evoke, however, is the passion of Remarque's book or the intensity of that creaky but wonderful 1930 movie. This All Quiet is so dutifully, ploddingly good, indeed, that it might almost be shown...
...Fouts, former announcer for the San Francisco 49ers, young Dan almost literally grew up on the sidelines, serving the team as ball boy. He tossed footballs with John Brodie, Billy Kilmer and Y.A. Tittle. When Dan signed up for a local Pop Warner team at ten, he wanted to be a receiver. His father quickly vetoed that idea, insisting he play quarterback. The son does not regret that Foutsian bargain: "If he hadn't, I'd be wearing a white belt, white shoes and selling real estate today...
...dead-armed and ineffective hero in the fourth game of his rookie season, and went on to endure six chaotic years as the best target on one of pro football's worst teams. The Chargers ran through six offensive coordinators in seven seasons, and shed head coaches almost as frequently. With the arrival of former St. Louis Cardinals Head Coach Don Coryell in 1978, Fouts took off like one of his own passes. Coryell installed a sophisticated passing offense, a "tree" system that sends swarms of receivers downfield to move across predetermined "branches." The system has no hierarchy...
...right place at the right time, you can almost hear history shift its gears. Such was the extraordinary phenomenon that occurred in the England of the early 1960s. Working-class kids, inspired by the new British rock, came together to create a new culture. As if by spontaneous combustion, that culture quickly spread beyond England's meaner streets and pubs to the entire world; eventually it defined a generation. To be in the country where the excitement began was to see life in fast motion...