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...Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best, brings a virginal intensity to each hoary plot device. He hardly gives his audience time to realize that the football team is only an updated platoon from a 1940s war movie (the Irishman with his well-fingered rosary, the Italian with his letch for the ladies, the slow Poles and happy blacks), or that the big football game follows a scenario that is both predictable and improbable (with only a few seconds left to play, the coach calls for a hand-off in his own end zone in monsoon mud), or that...
...Klaus Kinski) wishes to bump off the revolutionary (Armand Assante) and hires the rebel leader's old Harvard roommate to do the job. This character (Ray Sharkey) pretends to go along with the scheme because he is a victim both of existential ennui and of a sudden obsessional letch for the financier's wife. Much show-biz Big Think ensues, but it is not quite stupid enough to be truly funny. Interestingly, there are several nice, quirky moments of domestic comedy involving the protagonist, his grandfather and his live-in lady in an innocent but funny menage...
...meta-trash dialogue like "You're trouble, girl, nothin' but trouble." At the moment, a crushing share of the dramatic burden falls on the strong, hairy shoulders of Mark Harmon. His character, who is both rising-star politician and star-crossed lover, as yet shows no consuming letch for power. He is too much Bobby Ewing, not enough J.R. But an axiom of prime-time soaps is that as the show gets on and the evil folks take over, the action becomes more baroquely complex. Flamingo Road has begun sufficiently well for it eventually to turn deliciously...
...Letch for Sopranos. Buffalo Bill is a foolish figure. Called upon to make speeches when, for example, Sitting Bull joins his troupe or President Grover Cleveland visits it, he turns out to be the master of the grandiloquent opening and the bumbling close ("May the sun never set on this great land, unless it comes up again next morning"). He has a letch for operatic sopranos and a strange hatred of birds, and he is comically unsteady on his snow white charger-especially when he tries to make it rear in the grand manner. One suspects Altman has based...
...guys (Jack Warden and Bo Hopkins) naturally have a fierce letch for her. The third desperado, a stronger and more reserved type named Jay Grobart (Burt Reynolds), intercedes on behalf of her honor. This causes all sorts of fraternal tensions during the trek across country, leading to violence, death and a highly unlikely romance. The affair is finally consummated when Jay sweeps the adoring Catherine up in his arms and mutters, "You are the god-damnedest woman I ever met," as he bears her off to bed in the hotel of a deserted mining town...