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Peckinpah seems perfectly aware of all this, but instead of trying to do some thing about it, he puts her down - lit erally. She and McQueen stow away in a garbage truck and come spilling out in a gush of trash onto the town dump. Peckinpah's chuckling is almost audible...
...then quite abruptly, and strangely, given my initial gush and my baseball questions, our conversation turned to what was on his mind. This was in 1967; his son was home from Viet Nam and having trouble with drugs. It was a situation he didn't understand, a mystery. I remember that his voice wasn't as boyish or incisive as he reasoned with his anxiety...
SOMETIMES it was difficult to tell who the Democratic presidential candidate was, George McGovern or Edward Kennedy. Whenever Kennedy appeared with McGovern, the crowd invariably doubled. Time and again, cheering spectators would brush past the nominee to gush over an embarrassed Ted. McGovern had trouble articulating bread-and-butter issues for man-in-the-street Democrats-a task that comes easy for Kennedy. While living with impending defeat this fall, Democrats dreamed of victory next time with Ted. No wonder that before the final votes were counted, Kennedy was being touted...
...Adolf Eichmann's recent execution, Randall drives the reluctant Glas to speak of his own war experience--the horrors he, as a Communist and a political prisoner, witnessed in a concentration camp. Moved beyond expectation, Randall drops his own mask for a moment, pays tribute to Glas in a gush of sincerity, and resumes his bantering act, in order to tell of the hard times of his own life in the ghetto...
Reporters can be forgiven. So entrancing is her exterior that it is hard to look much further. Even her directors, some of Europe's best, almost gush when they talk about her. "Dominique has charm and allure that are outside of our time today," says Bernardo Bertolucci, who directed her in The Conformist. He compares her to F. Scott Fitzgerald heroines, who destroyed men with their reckless charm...