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...French gunman who flies into L.A. to assassinate a gang boss, Trintignant says very little in the movie, which is just as well, since he barely speaks English. Most of his dialogue is with Ann-Margret, as a topless dancer who shelters him when he is on the lam-and in such circumstances, who needs English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Man with a Valise | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...last funny line in a movie that still has a long time to run. Fritz harangues the crows and implausibly starts a street riot; he goes on the lam again, cross-country, and becomes involved with a vaguely realized bunch of bikers and Mansonites with Weatherman reflexes who take him to blow up a power station-in the course of which Fritz is blown up himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An X Cartoon | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...defenders, fell to the Communists within minutes after the last U.S. advisers had been helicoptered out. Immediately, the Communists set up a "revolutionary administration" in the city. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu angrily relieved both the commander of Military Region I, General Hoang Xuan Lam, and the 3rd Division's commander, General Vu Van Giai. No replacement was named for Giai; there was no 3rd Division left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Hanoi's High-Risk Drive for Victory | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

THERE were beaucoup VC," said Sergeant Lam Son, a twelve-year veteran of the ARVN 9th Regiment, who earlier had been fortunate enough to escape from Loc Ninh, the town that was overrun by the North Vietnamese in their drive on An Loc. "They [the North Vietnamese] had about 30 tanks and many of us were killed. We kill many VC, but they too strong." When I met the sergeant, he was preparing to move north again toward the besieged city of An Loc. His unit was in the village of Lai Khe, 30 miles south of An Loc, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: On Highway 13: The Long Road to An Loc | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...speak to a deeper level of the unconscious than writing." But his immediate plans are to write a new novel -and high time too. Just possibly he is a little weary of moviemaking. His first picture effort, Wild 90 (an hour and a half with three hoods on the lam), was hardly seen, while his second, Beyond the Law, received only limited distribution despite its director's claim that it is "one of the best pictures ever made about cops and crooks." Perhaps the most striking demonstration of Mailer's passion for film is that he financed Maidstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Norman's Phantasmagoria | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

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