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Munching, crunching and chewing away, through love scenes, naval battles and death on the barroom floor-that is the way California Entrepreneur Eugene Victor Klein likes to see his customers behave. Klein, 44, is chairman, president (salary: $156,000 a year) and chief stockholder of National General Corp., the second largest U.S theater chain.* By catering to and encouraging the moviegoers' need to nibble on popcorn, candy and anything else he can sell them in his 220 theaters, Klein in four years has brought National General from a $6,700,000 loss to a $3,030,000 profit...
Sporting a pepper-red wig, a low English accent, and the ever-ready air of a lass who welcomes surprise, Kim is pinched, pursued, manhandled, and upended at regular intervals. She excels in barroom brawls and petticoat larceny: popping a gentleman's ring onto her tongue, she kisses him until he has to surface, then drops the gem into her decolletage...
...played by Rod Taylor, John Cassidy is a fountainhead of wild Irish charm, a two-fisted brawler whose pursuit of the arts looks rather like typing practice. Now and then, between barroom fights and bedroom bouts, he taps out a masterpiece or two for the Abbey Theatre. But if his escapades are superficial biography, they often come across as stirring, hearty drama...
Khrushchev's gravest error, in his successors' eyes, lay in conducting the Soviet-Red Chinese ideological dispute as if it were a barroom brawl. He was so busy argy-bargying with Peking that he completely failed to recognize China's accelerated scientific progress, thus let Mao Tse-tung gain valuable prestige by exploding his bomb without warning...
That Man from Rio is the most mature statement of the BAH Hypothesis. Belmondo is pounded in a barroom brawl, falls out of an airplane, is manipulated by feminine caprice, but throughout acts only to save his woman (as always, beautiful). Where others are uncool, Belmondo is cool-ly uncool. As Lillian Gish would say in different circumstances, "My Hero...