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...gray. At a party at the home of Peter Malatesta, Agnew's political handyman, the pianist glided into an old favorite -"Don't throw bouquets at me... Don't laugh at my jokes too much ..." Listening, Murray Chotiner, Nixon's longtime adviser, took the cigar out of his mouth and cracked: "That's the Vice President singing to the President." Malatesta, the nephew of Bob Hope, quickly whispered into the ear of the pianist, who then swung into Getting to Know You. "And that," said Malatesta, "is the President singing to the Vice President...
Across the room, Lieut. Colonel Richard Dennis was screaming into the telephone. "Goddam!" he fumed as he chewed on a cigar. "This is war! What's the matter?" The "matter" concerned an absent telegrapher in Yuma who had casually "gone to chow," thus preventing Dennis from launching any air strikes. "Doesn't anybody over there take this thing seriously?" he shouted into the field telephone...
...Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra playing London. The more traditional of the two starred Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandra). The other, a full-blast 20th century version, brought Rebel Vanessa Redgrave on stage. The actors' props were revolvers, hand grenades and Ronson lighters. Antony was a cigar-smoking swinger sporting a white cravat. Dominating all, even without the aid of her three-inch heels, was Vanessa Redgrave. Her Cleopatra was a rasping vamp leering through outsized orange sunspecs, her slacks held up by red suspenders, and green plastic combs in her hair. According to the director, Tony Richardson...
...movie makes a misguided stab at social consciousness. Reynolds, as a man who has lived with and married Indians, is set against the rampant anti-Indian feeling on the frontier. But Cat Dancing's Indians appear as marauders or fools. "The cigar was one of the white man's good ideas," grins a supposedly sagelike Indian chief. The chief's son, a member of Reynolds' gang, is killed defending Miles from a band of thieving Indians. Reynolds attempts to sum up the problems of the 19th Century American Indian in a one-sentence eulogy: "He wanted to be a leader...
...famous cigar, and the Lady in Red (Cloris Leachman) who betrays Dillinger are two of the very few things explained in the film. We are left with too many unanswered questions. At the end of the film we discover that dedicated G-man Purvis retires from the force after killing Dillinger and that thirty years later he shoots himself with the same gun that he used to kill Dillinger. This is the movie's interesting tale and yet it is tacked on as an afterthought. What drove Purvis to such a symbolic end? We would rather explore Purvis' character deeply...