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...Bum Rap. "Ruckelshaus may be a fine, independent fellow," said a high FBI man, "but he's only holding the job until the President picks a permanent director. After our bitter experience with Gray, any appointee from outside the bureau will have trouble winning the acceptance of the agents...
...long-legged blonde he though he had saved from a crazed bisexual professor at an Austin party. The blonde is, in fact, dumb and the professor rather decent. With his new wife and his first novel advance money, he emigrates to San Francisco, loses his wife to a motorcycle bum, falls in love with an L.A. cartoonist whom he meets while scripting the film made from his novel, and becomes justly depressed when she turns out to be frigid. They split: he returns to Texas, and she to a cameraman she loved before she even met Danny. After another series...
Murray, TV writer turned social misfit and lovable bum, lives with a nephew over whom he has no legal claim--a "middle-aged kid" named Nick. Murray loves kids, and kids love him, presumably because he has a kid's-eye-view of conformity and hypocrisy in adults. When the nasty, unfeeling social workers try to separate him from his twelve-year-old prodigy you have a play. Murray lives out one long and harmless fantasy of spontaneity and irreverence--everybody's fantasy of telling the straights where to go. None of the other characters in the drama...
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. John Huston's finest, most vivid film portrays three bums propsecting for gold in Mexico. Based on a novel by a mysterious Mexican author, B. Traven, the story is an adventure weaved so tightly it becomes allegory. But such a description hides the style of the film. Its portraiture, not just of characters but of Tampico and the bum's life, is as skillful as could be, and the mood ranges from harsh humiliation of Bogart by Alfonso Bedoya, the bandit chief, to dreamy paradise that Walter Huston finds...
...BUM CALL! GET THAT SLOB OUTA HERE...