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HOWEVER, EVEN IF ALTMAN can't rewrite a script (mostly written by a hack, Leigh Brackett), or restrain the mugging of top-billed Elliott Gould, he is such a gifted director that his visuals and tossed-off stage business alone hold our interest. He crams his frames with different people doing interesting things, like gangsters taking off their clothes as a sign of group solidarity, or a Malibu Colony security guard impersonating Hollywood stars. If some of the shtiks misfire, Altman keeps on coming with others that don't. And aside from Gould and a stoned-out Sterling Hayden (Altman...
Eugene White was the most effective performer for the Crimson, taking 6 out of 12 bouts, but none of the other Harvard starters would have been able to hack their way out of a paper sack had the need arisen. Freshman Eric Read, who replaced Ken Bartels after the senior had lost three of his first four contests, was as effective as White percentage wise, taking four of eight, but couldn't really boost the Crimson epee standing...
Mickey, played by Michael Caine, is the definitive hack, the proudly profane author of dozens of paperback thrillers, any one of which would make the novels of Mickey Spillane read like the collected works of John Ruskin. He turns out his books at the rate of 10,000 dictated words per day-just like Erie Stanley Gardner-and markets the finished products under a variety of exotic pseudonyms (like O.R. Gann, "a leading authoress," or "the struggling Nigerian author, S. Odomy"). He also adopts a zealously sleazy lifestyle and a cheap line of patter to fit his chosen profession...
Crime boss Dan Swanson will start a jump center against Davis. The Chicago leftist predicted yesterday that his backcourt combination of Sue "Big Boo Yoo-Hoo" Kinsley and Dale "But Don't You Dare Call Me Frail" Russakoff would run Steiner and Mass Hall hack Chuck Daly off the floor. Up front, where it counts, the Crime plans to go with Bob "Daddy D" Decherd and Leapin Liz Samuels, a high school teammate of former Marquette great. Bob Lackey...
...disappointment, as in the movie version of his novel The Fixer, "Horrible. That thing went to five different writers. Edward Albee was one of them but he would only do it if he had full say over it. Dalton Trumbo finally wrote the screen play and he's a hack. The film should have been done as a sort of fable, in black and white. Instead, it was all galloping Cossacks and dancing girls: an overdone fake. And that sickens a writer--to see his book faked...