Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Street lawyer with long service in Democratic Administrations and close ties to the once dominant Eastern foreign policy establishment, disagrees in any basic way with Carter's goals in world affairs. Indeed, he takes considerable pride in helping to shape them. Nor does it mean that he is without blame for some of the setbacks those policies have suffered...
...blame for the failure must be equally divided between a feebly developed script and stupefying direction. The basic story is a Bad News Bears knockoff. A down-on-his-luck Hollywood talent agent (Allen Garfield) becomes fascinated by skateboarding kids as he commutes to and from the unemployment office. He decides to organize a team to put on exhibitions and enter the competitions that are a growing part of this phenomenon. Pressed by a gambler to pay off a debt, he unpleasantly pushes the kids, loses his star on the eve of the big down hill race but sees...
...years: "Today they don't want you to repair things. They want you to buy'em, use'em and throw'em away." He and other seasoned repairmen say that the substitution of brittle plastics for metal makes many machines more breakdown-prone, and they blame some of the problems of repair on the use of spot welding or riveting in place of labor-expensive screws...
...only to act out the script's juvenile racial-sexual fantasies. As the hero, a schizo prone to gesturing with his mouth while banging at the keyboard, Keitel gives the first terrible performance of his career. He is such a bundle of grating mannerisms that one can hardly blame his angry father (Michael V. Gazzo) for telling him "I should've strangled you in your crib...
...Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start . . . But when you get the damned hurt use it-don't cheat with it . . . About this time I wouldn't blame you if you gave me a burst. Jesus it's marvellous to tell other people how to write, live, die etc. . . . You see, Bo, you're not a tragic character. Neither am I. All we are is writers and what we should do is write. Of all people on earth you needed discipline in your work and instead you marry someone who is jealous...