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...epitomize the drab, jockish, predictable touring pro: Tom Weiskopf, the close-cropped, 6 ft. 3 in. Mr. All-American Boy who walks around as if there were a one-iron shoved up his ass; and Jim Weichers, a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. midriff-bulging country bumpkin type, who lets his tongue hang out when he swings a golf club. Hill had to win out over those two clowns, and I had to beat the fat old schlock-slingers who never left the press tent with some real, live first-person coverage of the final round...
...warmth to the part. Bangs often seems to be just reading his lines. Sir Lucius O'Trigger is a stock Irish figure, and while Richard Carey handles the brogue well, he's just too sanguine for any man--regardless of nationality. Bob Acres is another stereotype, the country bumpkin. Bernard Holmberg is at first intriguing in this role, but as the night wears on, his loud cartoon-like performance highlighted by his porky-pig laugh wears...
...movie lies in its introduction of the one subject that superbly conditioned young men rarely think about: death. Their efforts to come to grips with it, to handle it nonchalantly, as if it were an easy popup, are shy, deeply touching and completely winning. De Niro's doomed bumpkin is wonderfully exasperating, one of the most unsympathetic characters ever to win an audience's sympathy. Moriarty's Wiggen captures a young celebrity in the moment just before his public persona has iced over his humanity. Gardenia's manager is a perfect study in confusion-the baseball...
...White House does not see it that way, however. Over there they have decided that Ervin is out to get the President, that behind the "sweet little ole country bumpkin" facade lies a monster. Memories are short in this town. The Ervin committee is about as gentle as they come...
Acting as compelling as that comes partly from shrewd instinct, partly from careful planning. Beverly, whose IQ is 155, reads voluminously into the backgrounds of her roles and thinks them through imaginatively. Behind her pigeon-toed bumpkin in the first act of Manon, for example, lies this Sills analysis: "She was born with a good bosom and a shock of unusual-colored hair, whatever the color. She probably has gone barefoot all week except Sundays. Mama has probably caught her in the hayloft with one of the farm hands and decided that this kid is too much...