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...SALLY HOLDEN Raleigh...
...wistful, slightly sentimental humor of William Saroyan and the abrasive machine-gun ribaldry of Lenny Bruce. Add to that a mental image of Holden Caulfield as a 30-year-old dropout, and you have the basic tone and temper of Terrence McNally's Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone...
...waning days of World War II. Sian Phillips (Mrs. O'Toole) is on hand to play a pacifist nurse, and the repartee between husband and wife is snappy, affectionate and diverting. That is rather more than can be said for the rest of the movie. William Holden turns in an excellent performance in Wild Rovers as an agile but aging cowboy who robs a bank with his young buddy (Ryan O'Neal). It is a role that owes much to the character he created in The Wild Bunch, and the film itself owes similar debts to such illustrious...
Keyes is alternately cocky and confused, cynical and lonely, but most of all questioning. He is the same kind of ingenuous character that Holden Caulfield was. His love for Punch, his great longing to understand her, makes the book come alive, makes it a book about individual people instead of mere social criticism. Keyes' position-caught between two generations-is similar to Caulfield's, but where Salinger's hero of the fifties wanted to spend his life at the edge of a cliff keeping the children from going over, Keyes, a hero of the seventies, finds himself dragged over...
...once got the poet's approval before signing up an early biographer. Frost gave it, but finding another writer even more idolatrous, he awarded him the exclusive rights-leaving the publisher with two authors for one book. He was probably most heartless to an admiring young poet, Raymond Holden. In 1919, he offered Holden half his Franconia, N.H., property, with the proviso that Holden must buy the rest if Frost should ever move. Unknown to Holden, Frost was already planning to live in Vermont. "I had not only contributed to his desire to leave, but had also given...