Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trial. Obviously a judge has to maintain order in his court, but ordering physical restraints is often futile. Bound and gagged, Bobby Seale still managed to squeal and squirm enough to disrupt the Chicago proceedings. Besides, the sight of a bound prisoner is repugnant to most Americans. And a gag only supports defendants' claims that they are being silenced for their political views. Judge Julius Hoffman finally ordered Seale to jail to await trial alone...
...over the emptiness of Hollywood's recent productions. Their scripts shun new insights into human behavior. They lack even the requisite for plain entertainment-richness of detail. The incidents that occasionally occur in these films are threadbare. Save that gag. Sam-you'll need it for those ten TV shows you're doing after this script...
...last you don't notice its superficiality till you leave the theater. While a grisly joke is being played on Elliot Gould, Sutherland is over there asserting his salty personality, and when that begins to pall your attention is diverted by a new twist on that old running gag in the background. M. A. S. H. simply gives its audience more than one thing to watch at a time. It therefore becomes the only recent American commercial feature to stay more interesting than watching people on the sidewalk would have been...
...comes off as a cross between Andy Williams and Soupy Sales, plays the title role in The Lawyer -a young man named Tony Petrocelli who lives somewhere out in L.B.J. Country in spite of being a product of Harvard Law and Providence, Rhode Island. (In a tired, overworked running gag, he keeps explaining that his name is pronounced "Petro-CHELLI-CHELLI !" but the local Yahoos obviously have never even seen a Prince Spaghetti commercial.) Tony, as might be expected, is not very big in the Southwest. For one thing, he wears a vest. For another, he drinks root beer instead...
...films from Foreign Correspondent to Torn Curtain. But at 70, Hitchcock seems suddenly to have forgotten his own recipe. Topaz contains no chills, no fever-and most disappointing, no entertainment. By the finale, the predictability of every turn and the grossness of the heroes and villains recall the old gag about the espionage agent who whispered a code message to a locked door. "Wrong apartment," came the reply. "I'm Ginsberg the tailor. You want Ginsberg the spy, upstairs...