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...year before, the slides of which Dr. August Howe (Robert Rogers) examines in the first scene. Howe spent the summer with two other archaeologists--Howe's wife Dr. Cynthia Howe (Anna C. Lewis) and his friend Dr. Dan Loggins (Nick Stoller). Dan has brought along his wife, Dr. Jean Loggins (Holly Mapes), ecstatic after recently discovering her pregnancy...
...Eriksen (Dana Gotleib) comes to live with them. The owner of the house in which they are all staying, the loveable and amusing backwoods hick Chad Jasker (Andrew Pitcher), is also always hanging around. Although there is obvious tension between August and Delia and obvious lust between Chad and Jean, everything is subtle. And for the most part, everyone gets along quite nicely...so nicely, in fact, that the audience is in danger of falling asleep...
After lecturing about the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Frank stopped midway and suggested that the class discuss his concept of the state of nature...
What Lelouch does instead is divide Valjean in two, a father and son (both played by a wonderfully battered Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose son Paul plays the character in a transitional passage). Then he provides him with adventures that analogize, rather than slavishly imitate, those of his literary model. This figure, called Henri Fortin, is throughout aware of his resemblance to Hugo's original. He sees movie versions of the story, and people keep telling him that his physical strength, moral fortitude and frequent bad luck remind them of Valjean. He wouldn't know. He's illiterate, a retired boxing...
DIED. BOBBY RIGGS, 77, tennis star; in San Diego. In 1939 Wimbledon-winning Riggs was the greatest tennis player on the planet. But his enduring legacy is surely the antics of his later life--most notoriously the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" against women's tennis star Billie Jean King. King cleaned the court with the 55-year-old Riggs, who raised sexist posturing to self-parody--and inadvertently fueled the nation's growing interest in women's tennis...