Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never read any of the books," says Yale Quarterback Brian Dowling, 20. "But from what I understand, Frank Merriwell was quite...
...points a game for the Yale basketball team. Who would turn out for tennis, win his first two matches, and quit because his game was "not too good." Who would then suit up for baseball and drive in the winning run in his first game. In other words, Frank Merriwell was a kind of fictional Brian Dowling...
...great runner nor a great passer. But he is a born winner. He uses all his ability to the utmost advantage and he has great response to pressure." When he graduates in 1969, Dowling hopes to test that response in the pros-which is something that not even Frank Merriwell had the courage to assay...
Aided by the fluent camerawork of Robert Frank and Etienne Becker, Rooks served as his own writer, director and star, turning himself inside out on the screen. He traces his course from mixed-up rich man's son along a dizzying downward spiral, through some hard-edged therapy at a Paris sanatorium, and toward the bright end of self-realization. Rooks sees most of his life from a hospital bed in a series of intricate overlapping flashbacks that add up to a collage of visions, ranging from drug-inspired distortion to moments of near lucidity. A razor-sharp editing...
...have trouble with timing and spatial relationships. The editing is uneven, especially in the boxing and the road-tarring scenes. Rosenberg's camera records too much excitement from too many angles. What could have been classic sequences are reduced to patchworks of confusion. The screenplay, by Donn Pearce and Frank R. Pierson, based on Pearce's novel, is highly successful. There is no failure to communicate here...