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...clients ranged from Errol Flynn to Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin to Smoky Bob Mitchum. He was attacked as a publicity hound and had a reputation as a fast man at taking on sensational cases: when the Beverly Hills cops first arrived at the home of Lana Turner after her daughter had stabbed Johnny Stompanato, Giesler opened the door. But underneath all the star-spangled headlines was a quiet, brilliant lawyer, an ambivalence chaser and not an ambulance chaser, who third-guessed his opposition and won his cases less by theatrics than by thorough and meticulous preparation...
...situation comedy that has ever been on television. As Ralph Kramden. husband and bus driver. Gleason stared with massive malevolence at his mother-in-law and pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields, his expression a melange of smugness, mischievousness, humility, humor, guilt, pride, warmth, confidence, perplexity, and orotund, bug-eyed naivete...
Children's recordings used to find some of their finest inspirations up in tree houses and down in rabbit holes. Nowadays, they enviously twirl around the television screen. Nobody makes a bigger noise on Kidiscs than Yogi Bear or Huckleberry Hound. Accordingly, holiday record-shop browsers this year will meet the likes of Professor Ludwig von Drake (Disneyland), Quick Draw McGraw (Golden), Popeye the Sailor Man (Peter Pan) and Felix the Cat (Play Hour)-all of them shouting, giggling and bleating out jokes and songs with hectic abandon. But the children's market still offers more than...
...height of the conspiracy the boys attack their dormitory proctor with pillows. They hound him into submission in a chaotic onslaught that leaves the room filled with floating feathers. Then the camera switches to slow motion, the feathers hover eerily, and the boys tie their teacher to his bed, which they tilt on its end. Then they march slowly, agonizingly slowly, out of the dormitory, carrying Japanese lanterns intended for a procession in the next day's alumni ceremonies...
...nature like an earthquake or a typhoon, and the inequity of the struggle smothers the tragic sense, which demands a more equal conflict in which the hero duels with himself, with another man or with God. Man's fate as it unfolds in Mila 18 contains the hound-after-fox emotions of the chase and the kill, sometimes exciting, often poignant, but always oppressive...