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...also leads to the obligatory scene in which his wife (Talia Shire), representing quietism, doubts the necessity of vengeance, so that Rocky can inform her that a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Arduousness follows, an endless subverbal sequence in which the hero trains in the vast primitive fastness of the Soviet wilderness, with only his own fighting spirit to sustain him as he chops wood, lifts rocks and runs up the highest mountain for a socko finish. Crosscut with this lonely ordeal are shots of Drago, who has an entire collective of helpers...
...1950s beats. Actors showed stubble in movies only when their characters had been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside out, his models sported jackets of wrinkled linen and cheeks shadowed...
...Jesse Baltram, his real father, a legendary painter who numbered Edward's mother among his many mistresses. He does not know exactly how Jesse can help him, but he feels irresistibly drawn, by a magic he claims not to believe, toward "the longed-for father, the healer, the hero-priest, the benevolent all-powerful king." No sooner does Edward conceive this idea than he receives an invitation from Jesse's wife to visit Seegard, the artist's house near a deserted stretch of English seacoast. He arrives to find himself welcomed by the wife and two beautiful daughters, who look...
...sins of Murrow are mainly those of oversimplification. The hero, portrayed with steely self-righteousness by Travanti, is flagrantly romanticized. First he is the fearless war reporter, dodging bombs and ignoring pleas for his safety from superiors. Later he is a fearless David tackling government Goliaths and a high-minded defender of journalistic integrity in the face of TV's mounting concern for profits. "Something is dying, Bill," he tells Paley as he prepares to exit CBS. "It may take a long time, but it's dying...
...hero takes any interest in the commercial side of the matter, it is that the circumstances have him sitting in the only F-20 extant (two other prototypes crashed; a fourth is under construction). Not one has been sold. In his head, he is going "Vrrroom-vrrroom...