Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hines. The victim again accused him, but Mims "called in a psychologist, a teacher and an administrator from the special schools for the mentally disabled where Hines had been enrolled for several years. Hines, they said, cannot count to three or name the days of the week in order. Jack Anderson, professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, testified that any confession Hines made to police should be considered suspect...
...Jack Nicholson plays the role of Henry Moone with an unmistakable relish that suggests self-indulgence as the major appeal of the part. Moone is a bank robber and horse thief whose neck is scheduled to be caressed by the coarse noose of a hangman's rope, as reward for his many trans gressions against border town society and the upstanding folks of Longhorn, Texas. An ornery sort by nature, Moone greets the attending man of the cloth at the gallows with an irreverent "Go to hell." This kind of gutter humor holds the film together during the ensuing...
GOIN' SOUTH Directed by Jack Nicholson...
...Jack Nicholson, like most big stars, can make almost any movie he wants. He can requisition any Hollywood blockbuster that captures his fancy; he can fly off to Europe and make metaphysical thrillers with Antonioni. This time around he has rejected both of these traditional options, choosing instead to direct himself in a comic western romance called Goin' South. It is a peculiar choice. Goin' South is not likely to be a commercial smash, but neither is it artistically ambitious. The film is just a small inconsequential frolic: always eccentric, sometimes wonderful, and never pretentious. It works...
...Store also has its defenders within the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Ex-President Jack Quinn sees the idea as likely to grow all over the country. "It's inevitable, absolutely inevitable." Notes another bar official: "The law profession has too long tried to hide behind a veil of mystique that obviously has done it no good in the eyes of the public. That mystique is a lot of crap, and it's time we set it aside...