Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...About the Author." That seemed legit as preliminary reading. But the short biography-hype was culled from a self-advertising essay of Goldman's which I had read before: "Shuttling back and forth between Columbia University, where he was a lecturer, and Brooklyn, where he was one of the gang that ran with Lenny Bruce, Mr. Goldman developed early the split personality, one-half New York intellectual, one-half Brooklyn-Broadway wise guy. His critical career began...
Starts Wed.: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 and The Gold Diggers...
...Fugitive on a Chain Gang was a leading film in the Hollywood Depression-era movement toward socially involved films. It was also one of the best. It is a story of a veteran forced into prison by his circumstances and the abuse he suffers at the hands of society. The film is a little dated, but remains compelling. Paul Muni stars in this Mervin LeRoy effort...
...movie, which is raucous and engagingly empty-headed, has mostly to do with this fractured gang taking it on the lam. They drive around back-country California thwarting attempts by the local constabulary to bring them to justice. Over a dozen police vehicles are put out of commission during the rigors of the pursuit, but no cop ever gets hurt. This lends the movie a trace of the fabulous, like some sort of STP fairy tale. For the trio, however, the moral is finally brutal and predictable...
...couple of the old gang wonder. Robert Towne says, "We haven't had a heart-to-heart talk in a long time." Sally Kellerman recalls that she and Nicholson used to share a funny code word which they used as a whispered greeting, "as our private signal that we still love each other. But I haven't said 'Boobs' to Jack in a couple of years...