Word: films
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Celebrated outlaws are also perpetual sources of popular revisionism. While the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid purported to document conclusively that the two bank-robbing adventurers died during a fling in Bolivia, some Wild West buffs insist to this day that Butch beat it back to the U.S. around 1910 and lived quietly with relatives out West. Jesse James stirred such a spirited buzzard of legend and myth that, after he was shot dead, subsequent generations were persuaded by transparent impostors that the St. Joe desperado was, yessir, still alive. Questions about James (Was he a Robin Hood...
Soviet Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko has turned to that most blatantly capitalistic of occupations, making movies. He stars in Take-Off, a film about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, celebrated by the Soviets as a pioneer of space travel. One Moscow critic called Yevgeni's performance patchy. Nevertheless, Yevtushenko gushed that playing the rocket man "left a tremendous imprint on my own destiny." It was tough, declared Moscow's Establishment poet, to play someone "far more interesting, better and more important than I am. I had to concentrate all my inner resources, find everything good in my soul...
...sunglasses? Can it be the Lone Ranger? Clayton Moore, 64, who long played the daring rider of the plains, has been restrained by court order from using the trademark mask in nostalgia appearances. Wrather Corp., which owns the masked-man rights and plans to release a new Lone Ranger film, complained that Moore has grown too old to impersonate the fearless avenger of evil. Moore fought back by retaining his familiar white hat and, until the case is settled, wearing sunglasses. "I'm not happy with the sunglasses," admitted the western hero who had to wear shades. "I want...
That's the way things go in Monty Python's Life of Brian. The film is a send-up biblical epic recounting the biography of a chap born in the manger down the alley from the one people sing about each Christmas. Brian (Graham Chapman) is just a regular guy. He has a domineering mother, basically cowardly nature and no messianic complex whatever. But circumstances force him into contact with, among others, a lisping Pilate, an underground revolutionary group that spends more time in ideological debate than in overthrowing the Romans, and all sorts of people who think...
...group's inventiveness and cheek that the audience is always confident, even when things are running a bit thin, that good stuff will be along shortly. Adolescents are flocking to Brian, as if it were another Animal House. But it is a richer, funnier, more daring film - too good to be left solely to the kids. Maybe all the earnest protests will attract those who need it most: adults who have not had their basic premises offended, and therefore have not examined them, in too long. -Richard Schnickel