Word: holbrooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost theological interest is that of public morals. They oppose, by and large, all drinking, smoking and blasphemy. Also gambling. Sometimes even dancing. "Chastity is still an issue," said one Baptist leader as he surveyed the motions and petitions submitted to this week's convention. The Rev. Robert Holbrook of Halletsville, Texas, has sent out 15,000 letters asking support for a resolution against abortion. Yet another petitioner calls for the abolition of rock music on the church's "powerline" radio program because all such music is aswarm with "adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, heresies and revelings...
...compensation, Pakula has developed a series of incisive actors' moments that to a degree belie Hoffman's contention that this is not "an actor's film." Hal Holbrook is brilliant as Deep Throat, giving him an arrogance and condescension that make that famous nonperson's behavior explicable. So is Jane Alexander as the edgy mouse of a bookkeeper whom Bernstein persuades to talk about the slush fund at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Penny Fuller and Lindsay Anne Grouse appear as newspaperwomen who help out with leads at key moments?the former dizzily, the latter with...
...bear out," as he once put it. That the end product so closely reflects his first vision of the film is a tribute to what a friend calls his "bulldog tenacity" in bending many wills to his own. "He supposedly has the world by the tail," observes Hal Holbrook, "but most people who have the world by the tail don't swing it quite so heavily or quite so publicly. I respect him for that, for taking that risk." It seems probable that a large number of people who know him less well will come to feel the same...
...John Holbrook, one of the demonstrators, said that the demonstration's date was chosen to coincide with the visit in Boston of Juan Carlos Corral, leader of the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadotes and a well-known Argentinian left-wing politician who has been placed on the published death-list of the rightist Anti-Communist Alliance...
...There is evidence to show that the Alliance is just a group of policeman without their uniforms. Holbrook said, He said Corral was asked to speak at the demonstration, but declined the invitation...