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...Yeah," says tennis captain Dan Waldman, "he's a closet philosopher who's concerned with inner tennis and all that stuff, which I think is off the wall...
...gamesman is not fanatically loyal to his company; he accepts corporate rules but is skilled at finding short cuts. Indeed, one of his main concerns on the way up is to get superiors to leave him alone. Politically, he may be something of a closet liberal: Maccoby's gamesmen worried about pollution, and a surprising number thought the U.S. was spending too much of the national budget on defense. But the gamesman sees little connection between those attitudes and his work: he will cheerfully build polluting products, weapons or anything else that will sell. One of his chief goals...
...locked doors, a Bergman set is a calm and quiet place of intense concentration. "On the first day of shooting," reports Carradine, "Ingmar walked me through the scene where I discover my brother's dead body. To dramatize my dazed condition, I was ordered to walk into a closet and sit down. That's when I realized I was in a Bergman picture...
...textures of her silks and satins, the perfume from her furs. He wrote of "the green paradise of infant love," defining genius as "childhood rediscovered at will." Underneath the mask of decadence, the prematurely aging face with its repertoire of grimaces, was a youth of retarded innocence, a closet Dorian Gray...
...Tomlin, her impersonation of the kind of West Coast lady who has every style of salvation that has been introduced in the past decade hanging in her mental closet is just about perfect...