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Ghoulish Curio. The story has its basis in fact. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were two veal-faced wrongos who rode out of Texas during the Depression, killing and plundering for fun and profit. The constabulary bushwacked them in May 1934 near Arcadia, La., firing a thousand rounds into the fugitives and their 1934 Ford De Luxe, which 18 years later was still touring auto showrooms as a ghoulish curio. On their own turf, Bonnie and Clyde passed from the front page into folklore; elsewhere, they were relegated to Sunday-supplement features, colorful figures of the gangland...
...time they are cheered on by starving drifters who vicariously enjoy the cocky resume: "I'm Clyde Barrow, and this is Miss Bonnie Parker. We rob banks." In an episode at once poignant and wonderfully funny, Clyde lends his .45 to a Texas-gothic farmer, who shoots his deserted farmhouse, repossessed by the bank. They speed away from their jobs in a succession of stolen cars-their Ford coupes, Essex tourer and Marmon Saloon are virtually living members of the cast. The sound track adds a further fillip to the humor; the exuberant banjo picking of Earl Scruggs playing...
...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...
...blame for this unhappy situation lies with misguided public officials. If some kind of pressure cannot be brought to bear on the City Manager and the other officials who are responsible for the problem, the Avatar may soon be extinct. M. Pope Barrow...
...offer from Promoter Sidney Bernstein, entrepreneur of their 1964 and 1965 trips to the U.S., of $1,000,000 for two same-day performances at New York City's Shea Stadium. It's not that the money doesn't seem evergreen, explained Beatles Flack Tony Barrow, but that the electronics problem makes the boys so blue. "Until they have devised some way of presenting the 1967 sound onstage," Barrow said, "they will not make appearances. Mr. Bernstein might not mind if they sang some of their old songs-but the Beatles would mind...