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...Postman Always Rings Twice (no one knows what the title alludes to), like the scripts to practically all the noir classics, is a treatise on lust and betrayal. Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson), is a small-time drifter with a record of petty crimes, who is being drawn into L.A.'s vortex out of sheer statis. As James Cain conceived him in the 1934 novel. Chambers is a sardonic son of a bitch with no past to speak of, and no future worth mentioning. On his way to the city, Chambers drops off at a roadside diner to scam a meal...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Knock, Knock | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

...nation reacted to the shooting with shock, disgust and much philosophizing. Reagan ran the country from his hospital bed. Vice President Bush and Cabinet members resumed their normal duties, and federal investigators scoured the land looking for tidbits about the alleged assailant. John Warnock Hinckley, a 25-year-old drifter from Evergreen, Colo. (see story, left...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Shock, Disgust, Philosophizing | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

...child of a dreamer-drifter who changed jobs and home towns every two years, Jessica had developed an active fantasy life, seeing Gone With the Wind 14 times, writing letters as Rhett Butler to herself as Scarlett. Now she would invent a life for Cora, to flesh out the novel's sparse details. Says she: "I imagined Cora's movements from the Midwest to Hollywood. I painted her parents with people familiar to me. I was from the Midwest. I had worked as a waitress. I had a grasp of reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Post Mark of Cain | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Directed by Joel Schumacher Screenplay by Jane Wagner Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner are determined that this time nothing shall go wrong. Their last film, Moment by Moment, about an affair between a bored housewife (Tomlin) and a young drifter (John Travolta), was the movie catastrophe of 1978. Now they would play it safe by playing it funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sanforized | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...drifter a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Racist Rifleman | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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