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...rest of Losing Battles is devoted to remembering and burying Miss Julia. She spent a bitter life in a Sisyphean struggle to nudge Banner out of its happy bondage of ignorance and kinship into the modern world. The symbol of her defeat is Jack Renfro's beautiful wife Gloria, a Mortimer protegee who actually won a statewide spelling bee and succeeded Miss Julia as schoolteacher. "She stands for all I gave up to marry you," says Gloria. "I'd give her up again tonight. And give up all your family...
...wide variety of improbable smugglers. Book-of-the-Month Club Author W.S. Kuniczak (The Thousand Hour Day) was arrested last December for smuggling 160 Ibs. of hash into Greece; he is presently serving a 4½-year sentence on the island of Corfu. Playboy's December Playmate Gloria Root, 21, currently graces Athens' stark Averoff prison, where she is serving a ten-month sentence for crossing into Greece from Turkey with 38 Ibs. of hash. Nearly all of the amateur smugglers are under 30, but surprisingly few are drifters or dropouts. One of three young Americans who have...
...breakthrough that occurred off-Broadway during the 1960s. The small theaters, mostly below 14th Street in Manhattan, were the training or proving grounds not only for Moses Gunn but for James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) and Diana Sands (The Owl and the Pussycat"), as well as for Gloria Foster, Clarence Williams III, Cicely Tyson, Barbara Ann Teer, Rosalind Cash, Lou Gossett, Vinie Burrows, Yaphet Kotto, Hattie Winston, Nathan George, Roscoe Lee Browne and many more. Simultaneously, a band of black playwrights got their first chance to render and explore black experience to increasingly black audiences. In a sense...
...HEART of this film's impact lies in the honest delineation of the major characters. At the top of this heap of down-and-outers, of course, is Jane Fonda's Gloria-a cynical, unsmiling bitch, who has given up on breaking into the movies, on taking care of her body, on wanting to understand the human race. Miss Fonda's performance is perfect-there is no other word for it. Her acceptance of the lechery and cruelty around her as the only reality is entirely convincing. Whether she is taunting another contestant or ridiculing kindnesses of her partner...
...screen with a performance like this, and it is not surprising that most reviewers have talked about Jane Fonda to the exclusion of everything and everyone else in They Shoot Horses. Yet, the rest of the cast, in far less meaty roles, cannot be faulted. Michael Sarrazin, as Gloria's partner, and Susannah York, as a peroxide blonde, silk-gowned contestant hoping to be discovered by film directors, are relentlessly pathetic in their non-aggressive acceptance of their fate. So are Red Buttons, as a war veteran who hasn't found an inroad back to society in the 14 years...