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Actor Steve McQueen, wearing his maximum-security Brillo-pad beard as Prisoner Charrière, has decreed that there will be no interviews, no visitors. Except, of course, Ali MacGraw, Steve's partner in The Getaway, whom he calls "my old lady...
Standing behind a box of S.O.S. soap pads and a box of Brillo pads, the announcer looks out from the television screen and soberly, sincerely, begins his pitch: "There's been a lot of confusion lately over which of these steel-wool soap pads actually has the longest lasting soap. S.O.S. says 'longest lasting,' and Brillo says 'now lasts longest.' Obviously somebody has to be wrong, and somebody is." The announcer removes the Brillo box from sight and concludes: "The facts reveal that only S.O.S. can make this claim...
...popularity is bizarre; his work, in one sense, is not popular at all. You cannot go into a department store and buy a print of a Warhol. But go down a couple of floors and they proliferate among the groceries: row after row of Brillo cartons, absurd ziggurats of Mott's apple juice and Del Monte peaches towering up under the flat strip lighting. By now nobody who has seen a Warhol can enter a supermarket without the hallucinatory and even monstrous feeling that life is imitating art and that the principle of repetition and meaningless abundance on which...
...quite. For behind his Brillo beard is not only a weak chin but a vague ethic. The killer beast refuses to let his mercenaries enjoy any of the village sports: rape, pillaging, torture. Instead, he insists on discipline and mollifies a local priest (Per Oscarsson), all because of the influence of a wandering intellectual (Omar Sharif). As for the atrocities of the period, they are conveyed in formal compositions that amount to decorations, not disasters. Plague-ridden corpses are artistically strewn on smooth fields; soldiers flash evil grins in cartoon style-one even ecstatically licks the blood off his knife...
...dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads of DAR chapters and Leagues of Women Voters) the much announced Frost Cabin-unpainted, compact, reassuringly meager. Inside, the cabin is absolutely sparse but quite complete; a sitting room with fireplace and bookshelves, a tiny kitchen with saucepans and brillo pads, and a bedroom with a long workbench...