Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from his .44-caliber Charter Arms "Bulldog." Though Judy Placido, 17, and Salvatore Lupo, 20, his tenth and eleventh victims, were wounded, both miraculously survived. But the latest, and most publicized, attack tightened the grip of fear on neighborhoods in Queens and in The Bronx, where the bizarre, psychopathic killer has chosen his targets...
...Killer! Killer! In Congress, the issue cuts confusingly across ideological lines, making it difficult for many liberals from areas with strong Catholic enclaves to vote for abortion. Whatever his own feelings, any legislator in a swing district hesitates to arouse the anger of such an uncompromising group as the antiabortionists. Their attack can be so personal that New Jersey Congressman Andy Maguire was actually chased through his office building by lobbyists screaming "Killer! Killer!" He nevertheless maintained his pro-abortion stand. It takes courage for a Congresswoman like Maryland's Barbara Mikulski, whose Baltimore area is heavily Catholic...
Bluhdorn is hoping to repeat the success of The Godfather with one of the dozen or so movies that Paramount will introduce this year: Orca, the saga of a killer whale, produced by Dino de Laurentiis, or Looking for Mr. Goodbar, a Richard Brooks adaptation of the best-selling novel. Columbia is putting its big bets on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions...
...novel goes down smoothly and with just the right amount of bite. The identity of the killer is revealed in the opening pages: Tommy Bryson, a young homosexual whose attempt to go straight results in the sex slaying of a Glasgow girl. The question is whether the police can get to him before two rival bands of killers, for reasons of their own, run Bryson to earth...
...thug, doing society's dirty work to maintain the status quo. Of course, the truth lies somewhere between those two extremes, as Widerberg tries to show. One cannot assume that a cop is good solely because he is a cop. But this does not necessarily imply the opposite--the killer is not justified just because his target is evil hiding behind a facade of goodness. Some men are good, some bad, but their value is determined by their characters, not by their jobs. Other films have made this point, but Widerberg brings it home with his sharp characterizations...