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Your writer shows his ignorance by critically noting that on auto assembly lines a "worker must even get permission" to go to the bathroom. Would your writer stop an entire assembly line producing a car a minute rather than have a foreman find a temporary replacement for a worker who can't wait for the regular rest period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1972 | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...LATER YEARS, when Sir Winston was completing his Great Man Act by flashing V. signs to the press at St. Tropes, he saw The Guns of Nevarone and, apparently impressed by Gregory Peek's shenanigans, summoned its writes producer Carl Foreman. Foreman was just the man to write a movie version of his early years, the statesman decided. Foreman's script of Young Winston is loosely based on Churchill's My Early Life, which in turn is loosely based on the author's career until age twenty-eight...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: Churchill: Now More Than Ever | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...that "I am a part of all that I have met" syndrome whereby the man of action records no inner feelings which do not readily follow the logic of the events in which he is partaking. In accordance with this and with the Hollywood approach to everything in general. Foreman's screen adaptation doss not tap any deep springs of character or political behavior. What we get instead is a robust action flick far above the usual cut, interspersed with the documentary machinery of early rotogravure photographs on mahogany bureaus, newsreel clips of the real Winston, and a decent imitation...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: Churchill: Now More Than Ever | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...FOREMAN MAKES the semblance of letting some Churchill family skeletons dance obscenely in a series of TV-style interviews. On several occasions we suddenly find Young Winston his father Lord Randolph (Robert Shaw), and the American mother (Anne Bancroft) alone in a study badgered by the bitchy Rex Reed-style questions of an off-screen journalist. "What precisely was the nature of your husband's last illness?" the journalist inquires, adding after an evasive answer, "Come, come, Lady Randolph, we live in modern times, Surely the word syphilis need hold no terrors for us." Lord Randolph's death, his wife...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: Churchill: Now More Than Ever | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Frazier, the 1964 Olympic heavyweight champion and Foreman, who won the heavy weight gold in 1968 are both undefeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRAZIER-FOREMAN | 11/11/1972 | See Source »

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