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...against authority). This V is for Vivid, Vexing and Very good. Petulia Richard Lester Gorgeous, desperately madcap Petulia (Julie Christie) needs a Galahad to rescue her from marriage to a handsome brute (Richard Chamberlain). She chooses Archie (George C. Scott), a surgeon who has just left his wife (Shirley Knight). Released in 1968, this astringent love story, which Lester (A Hard Day's Night) chopped up and brilliantly reassembled for the DVD, is full of awkward tenderness and eruptions of violence. It's a flawless, essential study of despair and compassion. Brick Rian Johnson...
...have to, since more knowledgeable writers have. Start with Collins, the crime novelist (Road to Perdition) who is the Mick's most assiduous champion: he collaborated with Spillane on several anthologies, cast him as a featured player in two movies. Collins directed and co-authored One Lonely Knight, the only book-length study of Spillane. Collins credits Spillane with creating, in Hammer "the template for James Bond, Dirty Harry, Billy Jack, Rambo, John Shaft, and countless other fictional tough guys." (When TIME reviewed Casino Royale, it praised Bond as "Mike Hammer in gentleman's clothing...
...Hammer personality got an overhaul too. This Mike isn't a lonely knight, or even a psycho with a hero complex. He's a sleazy guy in a slimy business - his specialty is divorce cases - who does mean things for fun. I still remember, from seeing the film 51 years ago, a scene where Hammer picks up a man's beloved old Caruso record and snaps it in two. (The same year I'd seen Blackboard Jungle, where the vicious high-school punks smash a teacher's Bix Beiderbecke records. So I knew Mike was a bad guy.) The music...
...feel that we know there is a problem and that we’re taking our heads out of the sand.” She added that the marketing survey would help to pinpoint what the School Committee needed to do to draw families back into the schools. Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings of most participants toward the end, saying, “We don’t need an exact number to tell us about declining enrollment. The numbers are down...
...JOKER In Frank Miller's upcoming Holy Terror, Batman!, the Dark Knight takes on a real-life foe (who also lurks in caves): Osama bin Laden...