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Director William Friedkin told an audience of 300 last night that he made his latest film, "The Brink's Job" as a tribute to the men who pulled the robbery. "I really found I admired them," he said at the Hasty Pudding Theater. "They had a sense of humor about the whole thing...
...Friedkin came to Boston along with 34 members of the 'Brink's" company to publicize the film's premiere on Thursday. 'The Brink's Job" was filmed last summer in Boston, the site of the original multimillion-dollar robbery of a Brink's armored car in the early 1950s...
Actor Peter Falk and Producer Dino DeLaurentiis, originally scheduled to appear along with Friedkin, could not attend the talk, which included a 10-minute excerpt from the film...
...Before Friedkin spoke, Pudding producer Tom Randall presented him with a "rare and coveted" piggy bank, part of the "Triple Hog Award." Murphy tossed the other two piggy banks, intended for Falk and DeLaurentiis, out the door of the auditorium...
...Friedkin, who won an Academy Award in 1972 for directing "The French Connection," and directed "The Exorcist," said that filming the $12 million comedy "Brink's" was more difficult than filming a thriller. "You can make people react to a car chase," he said, but "comedy is a very ephemeral thing. It's hard to make an audience laugh...