Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jake is an inescapably likable John Wayne western. This time round, Big John plays a robustly aging paterfamilias who has been separated from his wife (who else but Maureen O'Hara?) lo these 18 years. When a band of merciless marauders led by Richard Boone kidnaps Wayne's grandson and demands a million dollars ransom (in $20 bills, please), Maureen swallows her pride and sends for the Duke. As soon as he shows up, both the child's safety and a predictable quality of brawny, easygoing entertainment are guaranteed...
...more than its plot, Big Jake is something of a family affair. The supporting cast includes such old Wayne cronies as Bruce Cabot and Harry Carey Jr. Cinematographer William Clothier has worked with Wayne at least half a dozen times before, and Director George Sherman guided Wayne through a series of two-reel westerns back in the early '30s. The film's producer is the Duke's oldest son, Michael, 36, and the air of reunion is reinforced by the presence on-screen of two other sons, John Ethan, 8, who appears as Jake's grandson...
...hero of this splendidly mordant, funny novel is Jake Hersh, a ghetto-liberated Jew from Montreal who, at 37, revels in the expatriate life of London, earns considerable wealth and fame as a TV and film director, still loves his shiksa wife of ten years, but has a bothersome question: "Why am I being allowed to enjoy myself...
Enjoy? How can he? Jake is a liberal. The higher his stock rises, the more guilt-edged it becomes. Like the author, a Canadian Jew now living in London, he belongs to the generation ("Young too late, old too soon") that grew up without ever getting a chance to go to the barricades, whether in Spain or Israel. Squeezed now in a moral vise between "the old and resentful have-everythings and the young know-nothings," Jake cultivates his own garden, "inflated with love but ultimately self-serving and cocooned by money." Swishing a brandy at his fashionable Hampstead house...
...educated blacks, and their affluence is reflected in spacious homes, manicured lawns, swimming pools and two-car garages. Often scorned by militant blacks, the affluent middle class walks a line between memory of the old and pride over its success with the new. Says Commerce Department Official Jake Henderson: "They may think we're not in sympathy with the black revolution, but the black really never thinks in terms of middle class status. He thinks, 'How can I improve myself and my family?' and then he thinks, 'How can I improve my race...