Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DENNIS HOPPER has lost the naivete which made Easy Rider's self-serving romance palatable. But one can't deny that the young director is a sordidly fascinating cultural figure. Two of his friends, director Larry Schiller and writer L. M. Kit Carson, have made a film based on that assumption...
What is most ironic is that the successful scenes were set up by director Schiller and writer L. M. Kit Carson to evoke a characteristic response. It appears that the filmmakers had deemed Hopper a human phenomenon worth studying; had then requested his participation in a film which would show the reality behind his publicity image; and had finally realized that even the most idiosyncratic creator is too busy concretizing his thoughts in his work to dramatize them personally. So, at various points throughout the film, Carson and Schiller work to catalyze into film actuality a character...
...Beguiled, a witches' brew of Ambrose Bierce and Carson McCullers, is set in a rundown Louisiana finishing school toward the end of the Civil War. A ten-year-old student named Amy (Pamelyn Ferdin), stumbles on a gravely wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood). Instead of turning him over to a Confederate patrol, the girls and their two teachers (Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman) nurse the trooper to health. The gently held prisoner coolly plays off his jailers against each other, hinting marriage to one teacher, making advances toward the other, titillating students. When his duplicity is uncovered, The Beguiled...
...Former Sergeant Laurence F. Lane, emphasizing how military intelligence organizations competed with one another, recalled that an antiwar protest outside Fort Carson, Colo., in 1969 attracted agents from the 5th Infantry Division, the 113th Military Intelligence Group, the Air Force and the Navy...
...because in this community one's ability is measured by the amount of money he makes." Less than two months after the diary begins, Siegel records his visions of its commercial success, his potential as an "ephemeral public personality," and his chance for a shot at the Johnny Carson Show. But the height of chutzpah is the entry for Aug. 1, 1969: "Last night I dreamt I won the National Book Award for this diary." God forbid...