Word: macho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood, but his subjects were presumably still tough: Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood. "Covering illusion, I suspect, is going to be just as confusing as reporting reality," says Willwerth. Part of the confusion came from spending a few days with Reynolds. The flashy-flip, skirt-chasing, tire-burning macho hero of Semi-Tough, and a score of other cinematic excursions, proved to be a "semi-shy, urbane homebody." It turns out that the fast cars, wine and women are just an act on screen. Reynolds does drive a Rolls-Royce, but at the speed limit, and is going steady with...
...Hollywood equipment such as a pressagent, live up to his screen image. After a stint in the passenger's seat of Eastwood's Ferrari Boxer, tooling down those twisty Monterey Peninsula roads, Witteman admits that he was "scared to death." Most Eastern critics tend to dismiss the macho and mayhem films made by the two superstars as drive-in popcorn or worse. But Contributor Richard Schickel, who wrote this week's cover story, takes a different view. Schickel, a film maker himself as well as a critic, has spent time with both men and admires them...
...Redford. Eastwood-Reynolds films are usually dismissed by critics, rarely play the chic little theaters where the cinéastes gather to read subtitles and subtleties, or get nominated for prizes. If anyone talks about Burt and Clint at all in the better intellectual circles, it is to denounce their macho manners and express fear that their habitual resort to violence poses a continuing threat to the morals of the children and, very possibly, to Liberal Democracy and All It Holds Dear...
...feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range. Besides, those macho chaps have been bossing outdoor barbecues and clambakes for decades and were ready to move their talent indoors. Today virtually every newspaper in the country has its home-stirred food columns, and several of their authors?notably the New York Times's Claiborne, his colleague Pierre Franay and the Washington Post's William Rice...
...NOTEBOOK: Even though out of action last night, George Hughes's black turtleneck has drawn raves from fashion-conscious spectators around the ECAC. And while we're on the subject of personal grooming, the fans would like to see Kevin O'Donaghue grow his macho mustache back at least by the Beanpot...