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...that sounds like Sam Sheppard and F. Lee Bailey in Easy Rider, it is un ashamedly supposed to. A modestly budgeted film without a name star, The Lawyer has magnificent pretensions. It seeks to analyze the dilemma of freedom of the press v. a defendant's pretrial rights, probe the personality of an ambitious young trial lawyer and lay bare the smug, self-righteous rural soul (which suffers from overexposure anyway). The result is a demolition derby that threatens to wreck everyone in sight...
...cast is generally undistinguished, with the notable exception of the prosecuting attorney, played by Harold Gould, who resembles Mark Twain physically and George C. Scott professionally. But with Sidney Furie discarding Blackstone for Bailey-hoo, Barry Newman seems a better candidate for the Borsht Belt than Circuit Court...
...Hawkeye Pierce, Donald Sutherland plays the penultimate draftee, a drooping, lugubrious sack of sadness who makes Beetle Bailey look like Douglas MacArthur. His sidekick, Trapper, pungently played by Elliott Gould, is a fur-bearing slob with the skills of a Christiaan Barnard and the instincts of a pornographer. "How was it?" he teases Burns, post-coitus: "Better than self-abuse...
...year-end pastime offering suggestions for TIME'S Man of the Year. This year the Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts, fulfilling the promise of 1968's Men of the Year, ranked high. So did Ralph Nader, Spiro T. Agnew and the American G.I. Golda Meir, F. Lee Bailey, Wernher Von Braun and Arlo Guthrie all had their supporters...
...general, however, what Food Columnist Adrian Bailey called the meal that built an empire appears to have declined along with Britain's dominion over palm and pine. Where to go, then, for a memorable breakfast? To the U.S., suggests Ronay, who seems to have been impressed not so much by the quality of American food as by the efficiency of room service. "Such rapidity!" he exclaims. "You hang that thing on the door and breakfast does arrive on time." Just where in the U.S. that remarkable experience occurred Ronay, unfortunately, does not specify...