Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film stars Jane Fonda as a television news reporter for a Los Angeles station who wants desperately to break out of fluffy features and into hard news. Jack Lemmon plays the supervisor of a nuclear plant's control room and Michael Douglas plays the free-lance cameraman who secretly films Lemmon and his control panel during a near-disaster at the plant. Fonda and Lemmon are well-known supporters of liberal causes and are both outspoken opponents of nuclear power. Douglas, however, is not a political activist and as producer of the film, has a considerable financial stake...
...also recognized that people may view it as a political film. "One of the things we've had to almost overcome is the fact that Jane and Jack happened to be people who have social consciences and are politically active. So then everybody tries to add one and one together and read all these other things into it...A Jane Fonda anti-nuclear film--that's a tough sell for 800 theaters across the country. So I think I felt, we all felt the film had a lot more to say, ...was pretty damn entertaining, and would have to hated...
REMEMBER WHEN you were young and you went to the circus? And you saw every side show? Twice. And you played every game and watched the clowns do the same thing over and over again--but you laughed each time anyway. And you ate Cracker Jack. And cotton candy. And then you got sick. Well, those days are back again--and they're as close as Radcliffe Yard and the Grant-in-Aid production...
...children of a vice president of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., Byrne attended Barat College in suburban Lake Forest, then married a Marine Corps pilot. A 1959 crash left her widowed with an 18-month-old daughter, and she plunged into politics. Her first hero was Jack Kennedy. She became secretary-treasurer of his Chicago Citizens Committee, and she worked so hard that even Mayor Daley heard about her. He became her second hero...
...shot through with echoes, correspondences and recapitulations of earlier moments. When Lulu is reduced to streetwalking in London, Berg called for her three clients to be played by the same singers who previously played her victims. The last of these, corresponding to the murdered Schön, is Jack the Ripper, who kills Lulu...