Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several planes of action and setting, while the camera glides around the ordinary hero and heroine like the young Astaire around a lamppost. They are ordinary indeed. As played by Teri Garr, Frannie is a Shirley MacLaine gamine minus the cutes and the smarts and the go-get-'em will. Her fella, Hank (Frederic Forrest), who works in an automobile graveyard, is just as lackluster. Sitting at the breakfast table with his beer belly peeking through a towel toga, Hank looks like the last of the Caesars-Sid, playing late Brando. The apogée of their romantic...
...Count'em...
...humanity. But the makers of Taps haven't decided themselves what the answers are, or if any exist at all. Robot-like, Moreland plods on with his doomed crusade, and when the smoke clears, it's not at all clear who's to blame for this farcical shoot'em up: Bache, a few crazy kids, or society in general...
...place a man could call home whenever he needed to get outta his own house. Cowboys, cotton pickers, state senators, the Texas A&M football team, your more adventurous visiting clergy-they all come to Edna's place, and damn if she didn't make 'em feel right welcome. The girls were plenny good-lookin' and didn't misbehave unless you paid 'em extra. And if you misbehaved, there was old TJ Hournoy-the town's lean, mean sheriff- to set you straight or th'ow you out. Why, 'most everybody...
...wanted to let the players really see the town; this kind of trip is for them--let'em see a different part of the country," he explained, adding that he trusted his country boys to stay out of trouble if left on their own. "No, we don't tell'em anything about the city or anything--just be back in time for the game...