Word: mannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Could we haf some colt air in de back?" --and suddenly, Hercules saw it: in another day, this man could have been a Reich Marshal. But it was an ugly thought, it all happened too soon to be sure, and Hercules shelved it till later. He decided to ask Arnold about his latest movie. Conan the Barbarian. Shooting was delayed until spring. Arnold said, because of his various commitments. "It could be that I'm doing another project before then, because I just got a script that was very good. It's called "The Jayne Mansfield Story...
Hercules kept probing, trying to find Arnold the Man. It was obvious the guy had a tremendous ego, although this didn't bother Hercules, he had dealt with oceanic egos, he had one himself. He even found it appealing: here was a hero, a man who would move the world with a large enough lever and his own belief in himself. "I set a goal and I go after it...I'm not at all tense about it. I visualize it, I see it in front of me that it will happen, and then it's just a matter...
Hercules finally broached the subject of bodybuilding. He had avoided it until then afraid that it would be like talking to Johnny Unitas. "Oh yeah, Johnny, I throw a football too." Hercules had known something of the joy of pumping, but here was this man (the avatar!), this man who had built a temple to himself and carried it around, an objective correlative of his huge ego. What was it like...
Rose spirals downward for two hours, as parasitic people struggle to make a living off her talents. There are some brilliant moments in the film--Midler's return to the transvestite club she once haunted, Midler's gutsy rendition of "When a Man Loves a Woman"--but director Mark Rydell must be the most pessimistic man behind a camera. There is no comic relief, no reminder that, in the long run, good can prevail, no hint that justice is done. If you take away Rose's guts, you're left with an awfully familiar theme--only the good die young...
Kramer is an adaptation of one of those best-selling, touching novels that appeared a few years ago. Stunningly beautiful Meryl Streep plays Joanna Kramer, who walks out on a torturous eight-year marriage to her ad-man workaholic husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman) and her seven-year-old munchkin (Justin Henry). The divorce leaves Ted to mother his son, and for months he fails dismally; but after they establish poignant love, Joanna reappears and wants Billy back...