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INSTANT REPLAY: THE GREEN BAY DIARY OF JERRY KRAMER. A succinct answer to that over-asked question: What has happened to the Packers this year? Simple. Vince Lombardi is no longer coach. The Grand Old Martinet of pro football raged, cussed, threatened and coaxed his athletes into winning every Sunday, and Kramer, his all-pro right guard, makes a perceptive witness to his antics...
Like the ugly men, the other nice things about this picture are also strange. In its slick color photography, advertising campaign, title and plot, Hot Millions gives the appearance of being yet another film of the glamorous grand robbery mode (Charade, How to Steal a Million, Gambit, et al). But, for all these superficial indications, this movie has little to do with beautiful people or even money. Not only that, but it's a suspense film with little suspense; a comedy with few big laughs; a love story with no flesh. And Hot Millions characters are the kind of people...
...symphony, singling out groups of instruments without losing the greater visual scheme of their physical and musical relationship to the rest of the orchestra. This makes him ideal for that potentially pedestrian assignment, as well as for The Black Cat where Poelzig's house becomes an incredibly grand stage for the anguish displayed...
...Security precautions were tightened after three Arab immigrants from Yemen were arrested and indicted by a New York grand jury in an alleged plot to assassinate Nixon. Acting on an informer's tip, police found weapons in the suspects' Brooklyn apartment. There was speculation, however, that the "conspiracy" was invented by the suspects' disgruntled former roommate...
...ignore Eliot's advice, promulgated over many critical, rigorous years in the Criterion, that a work of art must manifest its own significance. Ahead lie long years of scholastic second guesses, tracing the skill beneath the scroll and the doodles that underlie The Waste Land's grand design...