Word: barrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boff of the Week Standing in as host of NBC's Kraft Music Hall, Woody Allen produced a wicked parody called Bonnie's Clyde- with Allen as "Warren Beauty" and Liza Minnelli as "Faye O'Laye." Best boff: after Bonnie recites her ode to the Barrow Gang exploits, Clyde's brother Buck says, "I'm only a dumb hillbilly, ma'am, and I don't hold much truck with poetry, but you know what you've done?" Bonnie: "What's that, Buck Barrow?" Buck: "You've managed to combine...
...Though the boys throw stones at the frogs in sport," wrote an ancient Greek poet," the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." The Barrow gang -Bonnie and Clyde, his brother Buck and wife Blanche, their goofy, moonfaced driver, C. W. Moss-proves the truth of that maxim with its targets. At first, the shots are scattered in the air, like careless shouts. Then one lands point-blank in the face of a bank clerk. Blood hurts onto the screen, and from that instant, the audience is torn between horror and glee...
...simply the cinematic perfection of the death scene. It is also caused by the fact that Bonnie and Clyde are what Warren Beatty calls "ordinary people," whose curiously appealing lower-middle-class normality emerges between crimes -Bonnie's perpetual avian bickering with Buck's wife, the Barrow brothers' spirited roughhouse chaff. They kill and rob banks; but they share the common concerns of common...
...Esquire, writing sophomoric advice to college boys like how to fake mononucleosis. The Dillinger Days, a book about crime in the '30s, crossed their desk. The way they like to tell it, a figurative light bulb appeared over their heads when they came to the section on Clyde Barrow...
...controversy that would follow the film. "A huge waiter came in," he recalls, "and said to me, 'Hey Warren, 'at trew yew gone play Clahd Barra? Sheee! I knowed Clahd Barra, and he wuz much better lookin' than yew are.' " As it happens, Clyde Barrow was not much better looking than Mr. Hyde.* The encounter was simply an initial indication that Texas folk heroes are never to be taken lightly-and that the story of Bonnie and Clyde had the power to shock and disturb anyone anywhere, from the simple to the most sophisticated...