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After all, Bond himself is no inducement; despite his worsted suits, unfailing taste in wine, and unquestioned gambling skill, 007 is basically a boob. The original mechanical man, he fudges the assignment, makes the girl, and obliterates this edition's Odd-Job--all with a metallic equanimity. The big problem is he's both stuffy and stupid...
...after the bankers come the Wall Streeters"-before arriving at Al Capone, who was charitably described as "a small-timer." Biographer Hoyt finds it strange that Runyon's dark side went so unrecognized, since Runyon himself gave it such a lifelong promenade. "By saying something with a half-boob air," Runyon once wrote of himself, "he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart...
...Harvey's ignorant laughter. Is Belmondo a French Marlon Brando? Or a Parisian Humphrey Bogart? Or, perhaps, a James Bond full of happy pills? Though each of these positions is defensible and, indeed, held by supposedly reputable critics, the clearest judgement must recognize Belmondo as only Belmondo, that is, Boob as Anti-Hero...
...Boob as Anti-Hero Hypothesis recalls Belmondo's early though distinguished (some say disguised) role in Two Women. In that film, Belmondo falls deeply and unrequit edly in love with Sophia Loren. All he manages to do by the end of the film is lead the Germans out of the valley and then die by the double-crosser's bullets. Show me a law-school-bound Harvard scholar who can resist such...
Maybe Better. In the early '30s, the comics themselves began to turn serious, and Goldberg's Lala Palooza, Boob McNutt and company fell out of favor. In 1938, with some reluctance, their creator turned editorial cartoonist for the old New York Sun and, ultimately, for Hearst's New York Journal-American. The assignment did not suit him, although he showed occasional flashes of style. One of his best cartoons, done in 1950 after the Russians had accused the U.S. of starting the Korean war, was deliberately run upside down. It was a portrait of Stalin exhibiting...