Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ruth matched his play on the field with his playing on the town. He partied every night and a New York City policeman often would encounter a drunk Ruth barrelling down a one-way street the wront way in one of his slick automobiles. More often than not, however, the policeman would not only pardon him, but would offer to drive him the rest of the way home. All this carousing eventually lead to marital problems and after the death of his first wife from whom he was already separated, Ruth married Claire Hodgson, who is still alive...
...Elijah rite, Rabbi Bronstein explains somewhat prolixly, is a move "to preserve a sense of reverence before the mysterious pluralities of the transcendent." In another symbolic touch, an innovation of their own, the Reform liturgists have added a fifth cup of wine to the four traditional cups drunk by the celebrants-a cup that is left untasted "as a sign of hope for the beginning of Redemption...
...Stephen never emerges very clearly. Maybe Vatican II is to blame for drawing the poison out of the old Catholic guilts, but Tom Lee Jones' Stephen, in his wild Irish despair, seems no more interesting than a sullen Fordham freshman on a St. Patrick's Day drunk...
...vejk revisited seems a timely project, especially since it introduces the book's creator, who uncannily resembles his own hero. Jaroslav Hašek's father died of drink in 1896 when the boy was 13. Hasek became a dropout, vagabond, drunk and professed anarchist. He was constantly in trouble and often in jail. Like Švejk, too, he was less political than impudent...
Gene Wilder, who appears late in the film as a drunk ex-gunslinger, adds some lustre to the cast. He is a veteran of Brook's The Producers (1968) and The Twelve Chairs (1970), both of which--like Blazing Saddles--were blessed in potential and mangled in execution. Considerations of loyalty and ability should have motivated Brooks to write a bigger part for Wilder, who is one of the most accomplished young comedians in American movies...