Word: chinatown
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...keep such an ambition from being more than facile presumption, Beatty and his co-writer Robert Towne (Chinatown) and Director Hal Ashby (The Last Detail) would have needed all their wit about them. All through the movie, though, their attitude toward George wavers. When he bemoans to Jill the general poverty of his life, it sounds like just another of his ploys to mollify an anxious, angry woman. But the end of Shampoo subverts what has gone before. George discovers that Jackie is his one true love and he blubbers out a proposal -marriage, kids, the whole number -that reveals...
...works in shirtsleeves. His pipe is handy and in constant use. White House Physician William Lukash believes such little things reduce tedium and tension. Ford likes movies at night but sometimes flakes out. He fell asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen was in the Oval Office taking pictures, a serious avocation of hers, alongside David Hume Kennerly, Ford's cameraman, the President went dutifully through his routine as the shutters...
...years. It will last two entire months and include 36 feature length films. As with any selection, one can argue with what has been chosen. The management itself, in a small note at the end of its program, regrew that four films--The Maltese Falcon. The Big Sleep, Chinatown and The Conversation--are unavailable. But the group, is so inclusive as it is that the only possible complaint is not what it excludes but what it includes. The recent films--Sleuth, The Long Goodbye , Klute. Harper and The Last of Sheila-- leave you wondering what kind of touch less than...