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Screenplay by Frank Yablans, Ted Kotcheff and Peter Gent...
...script, adapted from Peter Gent's novel of the same name, is fairly true to the book. Like gent's novel, the movie captures the urban cowboy humor of the locker rooms, it delights in the sadistic pedantry of the coaches who see football as a business and players as equipment, and it squirms with pain from beginning to end. For caricatures, the supporting characters are remarkable--they put a lot into their limited parts. G.D. Spradin as Coach Johnson has a fear-inspiring glimmer in his eye and a loud piercing voice; he's an army sergeant...
...lunchtime, and the natty old gent in the gray suit sits down, lights up a cigar and says, in that famous foghorn voice, "I must tell you a good lie-a real good lie." It is the story of a comedian who dies backstage at the end of his act while the audience continues to applaud, thinking he is still in the giant clown's shoes they see protruding from beneath the curtain. It is a good lie, one of the best, but is there any truth to it? "All my stories are basically honest," he answers. "But from...
Listen, kid, and listen good. The joker in the trench coat is not the real McCoy, but an actor gent from New York. Goes by the name of Sacchi, Robert Sacchi, and he's making a flick in L.A. called The Man with Bogart 's Face. It's all about this guy who takes the name of Sam Marlowe (clever, huh?), gets his puss fixed to look like the one and only, and becomes a private dick in Hollywood. Hires a secretary who could stop traffic on Sunset but has the brains of a flea, tangles with...
...diatribe against Texas. I do not know the source of the author's resentment, nor the extent of his knowledge about the state, its people or its culture. But his comments inflict on readers a well-worn stereotype that bears little resemblance to the complex reality of Texas. If Gent's book really is "more a novel of Texas society" than something else, there is, of course, more to Texas than Texas society, or "po' boys at play in the fields (and beds) of the energy lords." And there is more to Texas than "seamy politicians," "oil and gas," "Dallas...