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This is a Keaton familiar from earlier comedies like Beetlejuice. He gets to deliver only a few amusing lines--notably in a scene with Vale and newspaper reporter Alexander Knox (Robert Wohl)--but he delivers them well. And Keaton has a beautifully expressive face; he's fun to watch when the script supports him. Sadly, however, it seldom does...
...Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles) fell in love with a girl from the local public school and got beaten up by her boyfriend, although in the end he won her with poetry. Charlie Dalton took his individualism to the limits, demanded to be called "Nuanda," painted red lightening bolts for fertility on his chest and got kicked out of school for standing up for his convictions. (At the same time however, he tried to use the society to pick up women...
Most of all, there is disillusion and frustration. Sergeant Zeke Anderson (Terence Knox), the sympathetic Everysoldier in Tour of Duty, confides to his ex-wife his feelings about the war: "It's just like everything you hear. It's death and destruction, it's hell on earth, it's twisted limbs. I just want it to be over." An injured grunt in China Beach expresses his despair even more starkly: "Nobody here gets out alive. Breathing maybe. Eating. Sleeping. You ride the bus to work, cash a paycheck, wait. But your life is out there . . . always...
...roof. Kris W. Kobach '88 and his roommate Alexander E. Dreier '88 captured a Marshall and Rhodes respectively. And they are not alone. Gary D. Rowe '88, winner of the Henry--a scholarship reserved for Harvard and Yale students--and his roommate Robert W. Cook '88, who won the Knox--another Harvard-only scholarship--will both be going to England next year...
...slim novel Capote produced at 23 was Other Voices, Other Rooms, which told of the painful growing up of a sensitive Southern child named Joel Knox, widely assumed to be a stand-in for the author. It was well written and convincingly atmospheric, with no word out of place. But what made Other Voices a sensation was an extravagantly campy photo of Capote on the dust jacket, reclining on a couch, wearing bangs and a look of degenerate satiation. His sexual orientation could not have been clearer if he had held a rose between his teeth...