Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taking a longer view, Reynolds adds, "I'm trying very subtly and subliminally to ease myself away from Billy Clyde Puckett and toward Gary Grant. I may be the most unsophisticated Gary Grant in 20 years, but I'm going to get there." Beyond that lies a still wilder dream. "I want to lead a quiet, pseudointellectual life and go out and direct a picture two times a year. You can only hold your stomach in for so many years...
Burt Reynolds is the white running-back hero, Billy Clyde Puckett, Kris Kristofferson is his buddy, split end Shake Tiller, and Jill Clayburgh is the girl of their dreams, Miss Barbara Jane Bookman, a Phyllis George clone who looks to have maybe been Sigma Chi Sweetheart of 1962 at Ole Miss. And before this proceeds any further, the discriminating moviegoer should know that while Semi-Tough is at times an honestly funny film, it is also maddeningly sexist...
...gets precious little help, too, as Kristofferson sleepwalks through the movie. Which is another part of a problem--Billy Clyde and Shake no longer play for New York, but Miami. Their apartment is some set designer's idea of what a football player's dream home is like in New York, however, and it even has a pinball machine. No shotguns, but a lot of what look like Magritte prints on the walls. Kristofferson is not a worldly-wise country boy but a tuned-out meditation freak. There might be a few people down there somewhere who meditate--Tom Landry...
Lewis, an Anglican, has always had a following among Roman Catholics. But the major Lewis shrine exists at a collection on British Christian writers (including Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers) at Wheaton College in Illinois, a staunchly Evangelical Protestant school. In Curator Clyde S. Kilby's vault are many unpublished Lewis treasures: boyhood writings, diaries and 1,000 of his letters, including lifelong correspondence with Arthur Greeves, a friend from his Belfast youth...
...Clyde C. Ferguson, visiting professor of Law and former U.S. ambassador to Uganda, opened his statement saying, "the first factor about the South African economy is its enormous profitability." He added rates of return on capital investment are high because of the cheap black labor...