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...Rochman is thoroughly convincing as Dolan, a slick con artist with oily black hair and a classy neon green suit. He propounds the "Underdog Philosophy." Hanging back, waiting for a chance to sneak ahead, he files his nails and keeps his cool...
Machine Gun McCain is an Italian gangster film in the old American tradition, manufactured with the kind of sardonic reverence that made many of the spaghetti Westerns so much cockeyed fun. The plot creaks with age: an ex-con named Hank McCain (John Cassavetes) gets sprung from the pen after serving twelve years of a life sentence. "How's it feel to be outside again, Dad?" beams his benefactor at the prison gate. "Don't ever call me that," snarls McCain, who regards his foppish son with heavy-lidded suspicion...
...cooperative orchestra, in which the players choose the conductors and the programs. None of the members of the orchestra make their living from the Philharmonia; most of them are music teachers, or solo performers. When a concert turns a profit, they share it; more often, they con tribute from their own funds to make the concerts possible. (One member gave $500 from his own pocket to meet the rent for a performance last year...
...rock-hard 213½ Ibs. His measurements in fact differed in only one respect from those taken at his last fight in 1967: he had added 1 Jin. to his biceps. "I'm hitting much harder and sharper now," Ali boasted. It sounded like the old Cassius con, but his manager, Angelo Dundee, was quick to agree: "He's so close to being the Ali of 3½ years ago that it's scary...
...Among those he unfulfills: a go-go dancer (Geri Miller), a sex-parched housewife (Andrea Feld-man), and last and by every means least, a raucous female impersonator named Holly (Holly Woodlawn). In the film's climactic scene, Holly stuffs a pillow under its sweater, feigning pregnancy to con an uptight, upright social worker out of welfare money. Those who can respect Trash will hasten Warhol & Co. to their ultimate alchemy, the recovery of gold from garbage. Stefan Kanfer