Word: heros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history and their great dreams that collided with the facts of American life." After dabbling in Marxism and liberal arts at the University of Chicago, Farrell chose to escape spiritual poverty by writing about it. At 28, he published Young Lonigan, the first of three novels tracing his anti-hero Studs from boyhood through boozy dissipation to early death. Though Farrell's unvarnished naturalism won him raves as "the new Theodore Dreiser," his unblinking approach to sex and scurrility provoked critics throughout his career. After the Lonigan cycle, he published 50 books, but none of them won the praise...
...Senior Vice President David Field. The studio's faith in Cimino was undiminished when the director's script rewrites necessitated a bigger budget of $11.6 million. The film had become more sweeping than a conventional western. It opens in the 1870s with the Harvard graduation of the hero, James Averill, who, like many of his generation, went West to help settle the land. Ten years later, as a federal lawman in Johnson County, he sides against his own class in the growing war between landed gentry and immigrant farmers. His story incorporates themes of love, class struggle...
...central factor is mime, in which a goodly number of the company mimic the balletic prancing of Thoroughbreds. The equine hero is Strider (Gerald Hiken), whose bloodlines must somewhere have tangled with those of Harpo Marx. Strider is a piebald gelding and, because of that, very infra dig. Metaphorically, he is a Russian serf in a land where serfdom, at all unhappy times, seems endemic. Yet all men are serfs of some sort, as Tolstoy points out. And every serf, like every dog, does have his glorious days. For Strider, the first is a fling at love with a filly...
...American slob-hero of Maas' book is Richie Flynn, 33, a poor Irish boy from Manhattan who had a flurry of fame as a New York Giants' running back eleven years earlier. Though still honored on the saloon beat, where he peddles Goldblatt beer, Flynn has gnawing dreams of recaptured affluence. His road to riches is outlined for him by a city hall insider, who shows the ex-jock how he can buy a building condemned by the city and lease it back to New York as a day care center. All Richie needs is title...
...script creates an exhausting round robin of ethical and personal conflicts for its hero. Should Tynan lead the fight against a racist Supreme Court nominee, or should he remain silent out of deference to an old colleague (Melvyn Douglas)? Should he carry on an affair with a bright Southern civil rights lawyer (Meryl Streep) or remain faithful to his equally bright and attractive wife (Barbara Harris)? Should he pursue his presidential ambitions or spend more time at home with his increasingly estranged kids? Not only do these dilemmas have the aura of the casebook about them, but they are also...