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Most people think that Simpson was tried twice for the same crime and that he was found guilty the second time. A more apt name for the second trial would be kangaroo court. It brings to mind John Wayne's line as Marshal Rooster Cogburn, when he tells the bad guy that he'll get a fair trial and a fine hanging. RON FYTEN Pierz, Minnesota...
...from Woman of the Year in 1942 to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967): "Spence was a magic actor, funny and quick." Gary Grant (Sylvia Scarlett, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story): "He was great fun. He had a wonderful sense of comedy." John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn): "He wasn't as clever as Spence, but a brilliant actor nonetheless, bigger than life in his performance?and often when he didn't have to be." Peter O'Toole (The Lion in Winter): "He can do anything. A bit cuckoo, but sweet and terribly funny." Humphrey Bogart (The African...
...support these claims, Adler marches out dozens of painstakingly excerpted examples from the book: "Swallowing this movie is an unnatural act" (I Will, I Will ...for Now); "a belch from the Nixon era" (Rooster Cogburn); "the same brand of sanctifying horse manure" (Bound for Glory); and "his way of pissing on us" (The Entertainer). Worse, says Adler, long sections of Kael's writing suffer from lapses in logic and an irritating habit of relying on rhetorical questions to make a point. Adler's evidence: 26 examples gleaned from the book: "Is it just the pompadour...
...ROOSTER COGBURN...
...another on the screen. The dread derived from knowledge that they would be doing a mere sequel (to True Grit) and that producers have a habit of resting on their packages, not bothering to turn them into movies that would interest us on their own merits. Rooster Cogburn is not as bad as it might have been. It is just not as good as it quite easily could have been. Hepburn is doing her doughty spinster turn, than which there is none finer, and Wayne is doing his crotchety old reprobate number, than which ditto. They meet after an outlaw...