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Earlier, after Brando had taken over the direction of a picture in which he was already starring, One-Eyed Jacks (thereby doubling the budget and schedule), he had announced that "acting is a bum's life. Quitting acting is the mark of maturity." After the Bounty fiasco, there were those who were ready to agree with him. In a 1966 article, Pauline Kael lamented that Brando had lapsed, like John Barrymore before him, into a "self-parodying comedian...
Fogarty & Co. is a sort of On the Road in the life of a kook. The narrative spans a three day bum weekend and interlude to a life that is itself something of a bum weekend. Fogarty, an Irish Catholic no account from Brooklyn is everything from a small time swashbuckler the's a deckhand on a tugboat) to a cult figure among the Radical chic He's also a dollmaker whose work even the Times has stopped to review. I Fogarty hates priests, quarrels with an incomplete slob of a white and lives with a Manhattan bound groupte...
Commercially, skiing is being transformed from a folksy, country-store business into a serious and well-financed industry. In the past, an enterprising farmer or a ski bum whose legs were growing old would dip into his savings and put up a rope tow on a nearby hill. Today large corporations are cashing in on snow business. Ralston Purina has bought a 62% interest in Keystone, Colo. Subsidiaries of LTV, the conglomerate, own the land, lodges and lifts at Steamboat Springs, Colo. Abroad, some of the world's most famous wealth-that of the Aga Khan, the French Rothschilds...
...glass-and-aspen vacation house is probably worth $500,000. For years, anyone thought to be a hippie was not overly welcome, and longhairs found it difficult to get work and a pad. Youthful counterculturists discovered that Vail was not the best place to be a ski bum, particularly after local police pulled some tough drug busts. When Minger showed up for the job wearing a mustache four years ago, some locals told him that he was unacceptable. Only lately has Vail Associates, which runs the ski area, dropped its rule that bearded residents could not get special-rate local...
There was a time when John Huston understood such people and such desperation. A comparison between his evocative rendering of being on the bum in Tampico in The Treasure of Sierra Madre and the windbag theatrics of stumbling around Stockton, Calif., in Fat City is a measure of how careless an artist Huston has become. The movie is offhandedly shot, with none of Huston's old feeling for the look and the effluence of a place. Worse, he seems detached from his characters here, aloof and even slightly indifferent...