Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the exception of one callow actor, the picture's youngster is Kirk Douglas, 54, playing with an outrageous auburn hair rinse and grinning like a Steinway with 88 white keys. He and the rest of the over-the-hill gang try to bust out of a federal pen presided over by Warden Henry Fonda, a lame graybeard with advanced ideas about penology. These notions are the only flickers of intelligence in the film...
...Liverpool. "I used to say to me auntie, 'You throw my f?in' poetry out and you'll regret it when I'm famous.' " Auntie threw it out anyway. Summing up Brian Epstein, the discoverer of the Beatles, who died in 1967, Lennon says: "Brian was advised by a gang of crooks." None of the Beatles had any money in the bank according to Lennon, but "people were robbing us and living off us to the tune of £18,000 to £20,000 a week." He also confided that he considers his talents suitable for competition with...
...Sumner Redstone to know? After all, these were Harvard men, weren't they? And, having that speech on his mind, he could hardly be expected to notice the J-V gang that had collected up on the second level of the lobby where they were grabbing whole bottles of the stuff from under the eyes of the pleading hostesses...
...savings and bought him a mod sleigh-a small plane with Santa Claus faces painted on its sides-and Auger flew into Santa Monica and Los Angeles with a sack over his shoulder. Local civic clubs would arrange for scores of kids to greet him: "The kids would all gang up around the airplane and I'd hand out all kinds of goodies." He did it for nearly ten years, but he was working as hard as he had in Stockton and, once again, his heart forced him to quit...
ADAM AT 6 A.M. also concerns itself with youth and Middle America. The son of upper-middle-class parents, Adam flees his plush Los Angeles home for a summer in the heartland. He winds up in Missouri, where he gets a job with a road gang and meets one of those teenage girls (Lee Purcell) who favor pink and pigtails, and announce with pride: "I was valedictorian of my high school class." He falls in love with both the girl and the country, but neither romance can sustain the burden of examination and analysis to which Adam constantly subjects them...