Word: fredo
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...enliven the nonsense with slow-motion automotive stunts and barroom brawls, but these signature sequences just do not have the energy of the director's best work (The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue) or even his worst (The Killer Elite, Bring Me the Head of Al fredo Garcia). At one point the film's hero announces that "the purpose of the convoy is to keep moving"; maybe so, but if Convoy has any purpose, forward movement is not it. - Frank Rich
DIED. John Cazale, 42, an actor who went straight to the private heart of his every characterization; of cancer; in Manhattan. Cazale found his widest success as Fredo, the slow, shy, forever startled, finally traitorous older brother in Francis Coppola's Godfather films. Other parts-notably as Al Pacino's out-of-tune partner in Dog Day Afternoon-confirmed Cazale's gift for searching out the darkest shadows in a role, then rendering them with shades of wit and unswerving compassion...
...until this autumn's thus far golden season, the goalkeeping job has assumed nightmarish proportions at times for Herold. During last year's 2-10-1 campaign, Fredo found himself operating behind a sometimes sieve-like defense--a situation that calls more for qualities of outlandishness, or craziness, than for steadiness...
...Yeah," Fredo conceded without too much trouble, "that game felt real good...
...string of losses, of course, remains imprinted on Herold's mind. Asked if he remembers the UMass victory last October, Fredo replied, "Sure, I can tell you about that one, and I can tell you about each of the ten games since then...