Word: beauregarde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the corruption of a good young cop: how his idealism is twisted and turned against him. Done with the sort of street intelligence apparently alien to everyone involved with Report to the Commissioner, such a theme could have made a strong movie. As played-badly-by Michael Moriarty, Beauregard ("Bo") Lockley is less a cop of high principle than one of low IQ. With no perceptible help from Director Milton Katselas (Forty Carats), Moriarty cooks up a caricature of a sad-sack flatfoot, slow on the draw and even slower on wit. Although excuses are supplied for his presence...
...Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) may be "the last hope for law-and-order in the West," but he is sick of the responsibility, not to mention the danger that goes with it. Take this fast-draw kid (Terence Hill) who insists his name really is Nobody, but who may want to become Somebody by outdrawing Jack. Who needs him, especially when there is a boat leaving New Orleans for Europe in a couple of weeks? There only a heart attack can cause a man to drop dead in the middle of a street...
...drawl. Namath's lazy inflections still suggest that his forebears fought under the tattered banners of Beauregard and Breckinridge. But as every true fan knows, Namath was born and raised in the Pennsylvania steel town of Beaver Falls (pop. 14,404), the youngest of four sons of a Hungarian-born steel puddler. Joe is sincere about his deep family ties. In his autobiography, / Can't Wait Until Tomorrow...'Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day (written in collaboration with Writer-Sportscaster Dick Schaap), Namath proudly observes: "When I was growing up, my mother was a maid...
...that of a left liberal college student; he is sensitively conscious of race, and of human rights. The other detectives whom he encounters in the 16th Squad don't possess quite the same sensitivities. There is Seidensticker, a mammoth black man who calls Bo by his full name. Beauregard, and who is almost paternal toward him. He patiently helps Bo adjust to a job which doesn't always run parallel to written law, but Seidensticker poses an enigma to Bo because of all the detectives on the squad, he is most ruthless with blacks...
Further South, another cousin told me about his friend, the "hippie of Beauregard High School," who always carries around a little done in his wallet. My aunt and uncle would be horrified if they knew that one of their son's friends smokes pot: my cousin himself is a Wallace man, but he isn't upset about his friend's proclivities...