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...were 20 seconds to go and we scored the winning touchdown. As a blocking guard, I was supposed to get the first man in the secondary to spring our back loose, and I didn't get him. I missed him. And I've never known to this day how Bud Cole got by and scored that touchdown. But in the rebroadcast I nailed the guy on defense. I took him down with a magnificent block...
...think of Leonid Brezhnev as anything like "Bud" or "Red" is out of the question, as is Whizzer Begin or Buck Khomeini...
...characters subordinate to story, and its yielding of surprises as the drama moves toward denouement. To that end, Dickens wrote the only one of his work that can be summarized (although in his case that is like reversing an oak into a nutshell): John Jasper, choirmaster, lusts after Rosa Bud, betrothed to his nephew Edwin Drood. When Drood disappears, a young rival for Rosa Bud, Neville Landless, is accused of murder. Because no body is found, Landless is released. Enter the ostentatiously mysterious Datchery, an old man with juvenile energy. Is he disguised? Is he a detective...
GORDON'S OLD PARTNER, Bud Cort, of Harold and Maude fame, stars as Max Brown in a Canadian production of Max Braithwaite's novel Why Shoot the Teacher? The film reportedly set all kinds of box-office records in Canada--it's set in Saskatchewan and was filmed in Alberta--and it's easy to see why. Like My Bodyguard, it emphasizes real people in real situations--a young schoolteacher in a barren Canadian farmers' town...
...film a newcomer named Bud (Travolta) meets both the mechanical steer and Sissy (Debra Winger, who gives the picture's best performance), his bride-to-be, soon after he arrives in town. Before long they are acting out a parody of western drama. Restless and feisty, she wants to become a bull rider too. Bud disapproves, just as he does of her flirtation with an ex-con named Wes (Scott Glenn, who looks tough enough for the part but does not act it). Wes is extraordinarily adept at staying on the bucking machine, and soon enough Sissy has moved...