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...this comedy, which he also directed, Reynolds plays Sonny Lawson, a shady real estate man who learns he has only a year to live. Even if the film were successful, diehard Reynolds devotees wouldn't buy it: The End aspires to tastelessness and its hero is a jerk. Since the movie is a mess, Reynolds...
...rapidly fading memory, with former anti-draft protesters such as the Berrigan brothers safely ensconced on the lecture circuit, with McGovern giving way to Carter and, just possibly, to Jerry Brown, opposition to the draft and to what it represents is no longer such an automatic reflex. The knee-jerk liberals no longer twitch when reminded of Chicago and Kent State, of the cries of a generation that would not go to war, a generation that could not support a system that it believed reaped extra dollars out of every platoon that charged into battle. Instead the talk in Congress...
Following Alexander for the linksmen were Captain Alex Vik. who carded a 78, and Jim Dales, who came in at 80 despite his whiskey-jerk putting touch on the greens. Spence Fitzgibbons logged a lackluster 11-over...
...growing political radicalization and her feminist-styled friendship with another woman on base (Penelope Milford). In the film's second half, the narrative extravagance takes its toll. Contrived plot devices, including the suicide of a minor character and the sudden intrusion of malevolent FBI agents, spring up to jerk Coming Home toward its conclusion...
...Harlem. When Diana Ross, who is in her 30s, decided she wanted to play Dorothy, who was a young girl in the original, there was another transmogrification. "Since we decided she's a black adult," says Writer Joel Schumacher, "we couldn't just make her a little jerk...