Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gets fed up with a bandit's life, he uses his proper name, Bickford Waner. Bickford (Dennis Hopper) leaves his outlaw ways behind him and heads down the trail to Dime Box, Texas, where he puts up at the boardinghouse and lands a job sweeping out the barbershop. Polishing shoes or eating supper with the other boarders, though, Bickford just seems to stir people up. "You got no respect, boy," a shoe salesman (Ralph Waite) informs him one evening. "What am I supposed to have respect for?" is all Bickford wants to know...
...cliché−and are anxious to make sure we know they know. Therefore they stress the mythic overtones that pop cultists are always finding in the standard western forms. All the ritual scenes−Eastwood's menacing entrance ride down Main Street, the saloon confrontation and the barbershop Shootout that establish his credentials as a law-and-order man−are handled so that the emphasis is on archetypicality rather than on believable action...
CABOT LIVING ROOM, What Four, a barbershop quartet from Kirkland House, Mar. 17, 8:30 free...
...commit suicide?" How would they have done the film themselves? Father Bill Loud answered: "We would have done more of a Laugh-In type of thing." The publicity didn't impress much: "I'm very big in a liquor store and very big in a barbershop and that's about it...I think life will go on just like it's gone and we'll [be] the late movies and that...
...being publicized by the press, radio and TV. Bringing a $1,000 damage suit against the venerable Gazette, Ismael asserted: "The court's diploma of virility, reproduced in the press, has done me great harm." The Gazette's lawyer asked: "What's he complaining about? His barbershop is never empty any more. Men envy him, and women admire...