Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Play the track favorite. If someone can pick winners they don't need to make a lousy living telling other people. Even if the favorite wins you lose, because the payoff on an odds-on horse won't even pay for the first bite of a hot dog...
...possible that the trouble lies more with us than with the picture. Maybe we have been so brainwashed to expect nothing but implausibilities during the dog days that it is hard to respond to a film that takes itself as soberly as this one does. Or maybe we expect something loopier from Friedkin, who prides himself on making slam-bang movies (The Exorcist, The French Connection) that are expertly designed and executed to appeal to us at a low, visceral level. Or-just possibly-Friedkin, despite the noisy response he made to critical hooting over The Exorcist, is answering...
...terms vary: fast food, road food, convenience food, service food or (to the distaste of its producers and the grim delight of its detractors) junk food. Whatever it is called, America's infatuation with such fare is nothing new. The hot dog made its debut on these shores over a hundred years ago; a recognizable version of the modern hamburger was unveiled at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. But sophisticated new marketing and advertising techniques, computer technology and entrepreneurial zeal have whetted a nationwide hunger of apparently limitless depths...
...McCall's 1975 hit song, are more charitable. "Only Sam knows what he's doing, but I trust him," says Ali MacGraw, who is trying to make a movie comeback as a chic photojournalist who falls in love with a trucker. "Sam is like an old dog you sometimes have to apologize for," says Kris Kristofferson, the trucker Ali falls for. A more direct comment comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes by the CB monicker "Pigpen" in Convoy. "Sam's a pain...
...Lunch. Meantime the trusty old dog, bastard, genius, otherwise known by his own CB handle "Iguana," is besieged by his staff every time he walks out of the hotel or his air-conditioned trailer. The picture is a logistics nightmare, with 28 giant, 18-wheel trucks and 38 other assorted vehicles that have to be maneuvered with military precision, and only the director can say where they are to go. Most of the questions he simply ignores or shrugs off, however, his head shrinking toward his collar like a turtle putting out the OUT-TO-LUNCH sign. Short, hunched, with...