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...take credit as a sympathetic protagonist. Bruce Dern, as an ex-POW who was court-marshalled for making a film commending the North Vietnamese cause during his capture and has gotten nothing but divorce and psychological grief since his return to the States, is brilliantly manic as he engineers the blimp-massacre to strike back at America for himself and to aid the terrorists at the same time. Robert Shaw plays a professional Israeli commando tailing the Black September group who is on the verge of beginning to soften and see the other side's point of view...
...have to check that out for yourself. Let's just say that The Late Show has much of the style of some of the great Hollywood shamus movies. Benton borrows quite a bit, most notably a could-be corpse in the bathroom sequence from The Conversation and a manic chase scene from a long line of films. But he steals with style, and this movie has what these detective stories always required: laughs, suspense and the romantic angle. In this business these days, what looks like a bulging wad of potential often delivers about as much as a grifter...
...would get $1,000-the company's maximum to anybody-at 18% interest. If he worked on commission, Manager Edmund Naddaff would turn him down flat. Why? Like many people in the business, Naddaff has his own intriguing theory: a commission salesman, he says, is likely to be "manic-depressive as a person" and thus a poor credit risk...
...Crowd: There were thirteen thousand six hundred and seventy-four manic screaming fans on hand for the Harvard-Boston College showdown, and every single one of them realized that nowhere else in the athletic world was there a game being played that remotely resembled this one in intensity, excitement, or calibre of play. And they were absolutely right...
...HARVARD CREW for an hour at a time to be arranged with Coach Parker? $150 Who, disguised as a mild-mannered crew coach, disrobes backstage at Symphony each Saturday evening to reveal a stiff white collar caked with stale rosin from last weekend's manic rendition of Bruckner's eighth? Seems just about everyone is in on the adventure. And who could resist? With the opportunity to test your skills in the stern of a Harvard boat, you might even find yourself waiting in line behind George Plimpton...