Word: gores
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...film). Director Arthur Penn then gets down to the real business of the film, the mutilation of cattle thieves. (Blowing a man's kidneys out while he's having intercourse, flinging a steel rabbit trap through a man's eyeball--you know, "the breaks.") This grotesque circus of gore soon winds down into incoherency, and buffs who expected more from this line-up begin to realize the full meaning of "the breaks." Or, as Dr. Johnson might put it, "A humorous or ugly bit is a humourous or ugly bit; show me a plotline...
...million Penthouse production of Gore Vidal's Caligula has had all the success of an open-air orgy in Antarctica. First, Writer Gore Vidal quarreled with Director Tinto Brass and was barred from the movie's sets in Rome. Next to exit was Actress Maria Schneider, who called the film biography of the Roman emperor "a grotesque pornographic movie," and walked out after a day's shooting. "For an enormous amount of money they're asking people to prostitute themselves. I was ready and willing to act, but not to take my clothes...
...reminiscent of John F. Kennedy, is running an energetic campaign for the U.S. Senate. Says he: "If I take a day off, I just get restless and run out of the house to find a hand to shake." Sasser, a onetime legislative assistant to the late liberal Senator Albert Gore, is given a good chance against the man who unseated Gore in 1970: Republican Senator William Brock, 45, who is himself an aggressive, well-financed campaigner...
Like a number of his contemporaries-Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Irwin Shaw and John Home Burns-Vance Bourjaily salvaged a good first novel (The End of My Life) out of the rubble of World War II. Critics spotted him among this cadre of new novelists, who became part of the curriculum for an American literary renaissance. The smart writers paid no attention. Neither life nor art traipses after textbooks, and the Mailers and Vidals went their separate ways. But Bourjaily, now 54, has never escaped the stigma of premature recognition. On the appearance of each of his next five novels...
Peter O'Toole is Roman Emperor Tiberius, Malcolm McDowell is the Emperor Caligula-but Author Gore Vidal is the kingfish when it comes to his newest screen project. "It's called Gore Vidal's Caligula and not just Caligula, since that gives me some control," he says of the film now being produced in Italy by Franco Rossellini. Still, in a rare lapse from his usual impermeable poise, the screenwriter confessed, "Control entails responsibility, and sometimes I just don't know what's going on." Vidal expects his appearance on TV's Mary Hartman...