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Coming Home, Ashby's latest film, is the flip side of Shampoo-and its perfect companion piece. Also set in Southern California in 1968, the movie is about those unfortunate Americans who could not escape the war's deadly grasp: the men who fought in Viet Nam and the women they left behind. Like Shampoo, Coming Home offers a devastating vision of this country's recent social history, but the new film is no comedy. Coming Home is, as its material dictates, one long, low howl of pain...
...icemen tied it up for the first time at 13:25 with Cook's first, a shot tipped by Arrington on a backhand flip by Jon Garrity. Defenseman Franco Scalamandre also chalked up an assist on the score, which finally came after consistent pressure by the Cook-Garrity-Bobby Kelley line...
Some of the moves Estey will have to perfect for the judges include double and triple toe jumps, double flip jumps, loop jumps, flying camels, flying sit spins, triple salchows, cross foot spins and a serpentine footwork sequence...
...beat in Hollywood, but his subjects were presumably still tough: Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood. "Covering illusion, I suspect, is going to be just as confusing as reporting reality," says Willwerth. Part of the confusion came from spending a few days with Reynolds. The flashy-flip, skirt-chasing, tire-burning macho hero of Semi-Tough, and a score of other cinematic excursions, proved to be a "semi-shy, urbane homebody." It turns out that the fast cars, wine and women are just an act on screen. Reynolds does drive a Rolls-Royce, but at the speed limit, and is going...
...scene is a familiar one to all small boys with big dreams: make-believe football games in the backyard, played in solitude to the roar of an imaginary crowd. "I'd throw up the ball, pretend it was a kickoff, then run and fake and flip and fall down and get up again and call another play. Sometimes I'd pretend it was a pass. I'd run and catch it or dive for it. That...