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...view of Pontiac's recent commercials [March 22], it is interesting to know what Clyde thought of the automobiles of the day in his own words. Enclosed is a copy of a letter written...
...dusty attic of memory. Between coughing bouts, Lot recalls his Oedipalsy life with mother, and Myrtle shuffles through an account of her showgirl days with the Five Hot Shots from Mobile. The actors are uniformly admirable, and Estelle Parsons (Buck Barrow's wife in Bonnie and Clyde) is more than that as she makes of Myrtle a tender, vulnerable woman of tattered gallantry and frail flesh...
...funny commercial that shows Bonnie, Clyde, C. W. Moss and the in-laws chugging along toward an airport in a 1931 Buick while frantic banjo music gives pace to the scene. Nobody likes to hang around an airport, says an urbane narrator-and so the bandits, every one the spit and image of the movie cast, scurry out of their car and make their way onto a TWA jet, leaving the cops behind...
Flying A gasoline sponsors another Bonnie and Clyde crew. This time they roll up to a Flying A station. They're in a hurry; they've got a "withdrawal" to make. But the overfriendly attendant insists on delivering a pitch for the sponsor's latest premium offer. Finally, a gum-snapping Bonnie says: "Let's gedoutta heah awreddy!" And off they lurch...
...latest addition to the literature, and perhaps the best, is three one-minute Pontiac commercials. One shows Bonnie and Clyde in the hands of an effervescent dealer. The gang has just pulled a bank job and needs "something that moves." The rest of the commercial is a hilarious takeoff on the scene from the movie in which the bandits kidnap a young couple. In this case, the unsuspecting Pontiac salesman merrily delivers his pitch-again to a banjo score-while Clyde & Co. barrel down the road with him. At length, they boot him out. Says the salesman, unperturbed...