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...games with names at this level (a couple of greedy cowpokes named Burt and Curt are also present) is a way of signifying-on the cheap-that the movie aims at something more than realistic portraiture. Director Perry and Writer McGuane are desperate for us to see that their characters' obsession with keeping outworn frontier traditions alive is really childish role playing. This is most evident in the movie's treatment of women. All are either sexually restless (notably Elizabeth Ashley as the rancher's wife) because their men are so wrapped up in fantasies, or (like...
...sure," says staff writer Burt Solomon. He laughs and shakes his head. "After all this, I'm not sure...
...Burt Reynolds) is a backwoods con man with a predilection for ripping off gas stations belonging to an oil company that has done him wrong in some unspecified way. The Dixie Dancekings are a musical organization that operates about as far up country as you can get without actually becoming a hermit. The former joins the latter -uninvited-as a ploy to elude a cop who has trailed him into a roadhouse where the Dancekings are playing. W.W. has no difficulty persuading the law that he is the group's manager. He goes on to convince the group that...
...Navy again at the Sprints." Cox Burt Levitch said. "And I think we'll beat them. We have the potential...
True to form, Jasinski reached base on a walk by Larsen. He got to second on a single by Sabatini and came home on Sinkewicz's shot. Linehan came in to face Sinkewicz and got Burt Bornstein to ground out. Bigda cracked a double which scored Sabatini and Sinkewicz...