Word: gator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernal now coaches the swim team at Fordham University and the Gator Club in New York which finished ninth in the recent AAU championships...
...termed it the Leftover Bowl, and he was a participant, so you can imagine how it struck the rest of us. But it was a bowl just the same, and in this season of Liberty, Cotton, Bluebonnet and Gator, that's all that counts...
...attack humans. "It's people, not alligators, that are becoming an endangered species in some Louisiana parishes," says a wildlife official. His fears seem well founded. Golfers at New Orleans Bayou Barriere Golf Club have become somewhat timid since club members found and killed a 5-ft. gator near the 14th fairway. A Metairie, La., family called off an afternoon swim when they found a four-footer in their backyard pool. In Alabama last month a 13-ft. gator glided up to a 30-lb. beagle and swallowed it in one gulp...
...hierarchy of modern movie society, Gator must be ranked as poor white trash-the kind of tacky little film that finds its natural home in small-town drive-ins and at those tattered old downtown theaters that specialize in double-feature action programs. Yet Gator offers the agreeably self-satirizing presence of Burt Reynolds and evidence that he may also have some modest talent for vigorously unsophisticated direction...
What finally prevents Gator from rising above its humble origins is an awkward mixture of moods that Director Reynolds never really manages to sort out and smooth over. The picture's basic ambience is rather larkish, but there are melodramatic sequences of near-Victorian sentimentality (especially in an exploration of a cathouse specializing in drugged adolescents) and others that stress a kind of Disposall-style violence. These sudden shifts in tone are disorienting and make what might have been a modestly entertaining venture into something that is unfortunately less than the sum of its several good parts...