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...second part of the film begins as the rider abandons his son for the woman, who demands, as a condition of her love, that he show himself to be the greatest man by killing the Four Great Masters of the Desert. He calls her Mara, which, he says, is what the Israelites called the bitter water they found in the desert. (Mara is also the name of the tempter of the Buddha.) She, along with every other woman in the movie, is portrayed as evil; all are vain, selfish, deceitful. There is only one exception, a midget, who is childish...
When the last Master shoots himself, Jodorowsky freaks out, and runs around pulling at his hair and yelling at God for having forsaken him. Meanwhile, Mara has taken up with a stereotypical lesbian, who dresses in black, wears black mascara and a black Sassoon haircut. The lesbian shoots him six times, but he keeps walking, arms outstretched and with stigmata bleeding at the hands and feet, until Mara shoots him and he crumbles to the ground and is hauled away by a group of dwarfs and cripples...
...Leone. In trying to outdo his forebears with greater bloodshed, deformity and perversion, he fails to realize anything more subtle, anything transcending what he shocks you with. El Topo is intensity for the sake of intensity. Jodorowsky's attempts at anything but horror are sad failures: a scene of Mara discovering the world outside of her monastic confinement looks like a bad Tampax...
...often these past few years, the voices have not been heard from the middle-of-the-road majority of the hierarchy, either in the U.S. or abroad. They have come from loyal independents like Brazil's Dom Helder Câmara, battling for his nation's poor, or Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, pleading for a greater role in the church for bishops, priests and laymen as well. Often they have come from outside the hierarchy altogether: from Daniel and Philip Berrigan, languishing in jail for the cause of peace; from the irrepressible Hans...
...less than 3 times over." Even though Pete Rozelle virtuously forced Joe Namath to give up his Bachelors III nightclub because of alleged patronage by gamblers, Parrish charges the league's very roots were sunk from the start in the subsoil of big-time gambling. The late Tim Mara, longtime owner of the New York Giants, was once a legal bookmaker at New York race tracks. Art Rooney supposedly bought the Pittsburgh Steelers after winning $256,000 at Saratoga Race Track in 1927. Baltimore Colts Owner Carroll Rosenbloom has always been a high roller, according to Parrish. Other owners...