Word: archers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bleached and blinding light of the Southwest. James Coburn seems to be relaxing and growing as an actor. Charming and bemused in The Carey Treatment (TIME, April 24), he is effectively ornery here. The rest of the cast fit snugly into their roles, too, with the exception of Anne Archer, who looks more like a Coppertone suntan model than the Indian girl friend of Coburn's she is supposed to portray. · Jay Cocks
...question invites endless literary lawyering. Is it not possible, for instance, to write excitingly about violence without being a carnographer? Yes, of course; James Jones' fine combat novel The Thin Red Line is not carno, nor is James Dickey's Deliverance, nor Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer stories. Mickey Spillane's 1, the Jury is carno. No, it is not possible to draw a line, and yes, David Morrell's First Blood is unmistakably carno, well over the line that can't be drawn...
Screenplay by PAUL GARDNER and EUGENE ARCHER...
...wisecracks (Flea: "Nice shot!" Lee: "What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion?ground balls?"). They love his catch phrases ("Black is beautiful, but brown is cute") and his apologies for cussing ("Excuse me, lady, I thought you was a tree"). Says 1969 Masters Champion George Archer: "The tour is like a big circus that pulls into town once a year, and Lee is the ringmaster and clown rolled into...
...right, he has a flat chopping stroke that sends his drives off the tee like sharp singles to center field. Dead center field, that is. No power hitter, he makes up in accuracy what he lacks in distance. "The only time Lee's off the fairway," says Archer, "is when he's answering the phone." As for his short game, few if any of the pros surpass his skill at, as he puts it, "dropping the ball on the Governor's lawn." Once there, he putts like a pool shark. "My swing's not much," he says...