Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to let us in on some Inner Message, but the connection between the weirdness on screen and this message is never made clear. The opaqueness of Nesmith's vision in the end makes Repo Man--well...dell, with only a very cool hardcore soundtrack to sustain it. Mad Max--where are you when we need...
...heart of both films is a cautionary fable that spans nearly five decades of American antisocial history: from 1921, when a teen-age gang of Jewish punks assembles in their Manhattan ghetto, to 1933, when the gang's leaders, Noodles (Robert De Niro) and Max (James Woods), tumble into betrayal, to 1968, when the old men meet to act out their perverse codes of honor. Leone filmed the story in the luscious, mythic style that he developed in his popular "spaghetti westerns" with Clint Eastwood and perfected in Once upon a Time in the West (1969), an outsider...
...more auteurist fantasia. When Leone delivered his film at an hour over the contracted 2 hr. 45 min., a team headed by Editor Zach Staenberg went to work, putting the story into chronological order, jettisoning some of the most operatically violent scenes, dropping Deborah (and her child by Max) from the 1968 section and giving Max a new way out of his climactic misery. Says Jay Kanter, vice president of the Ladd Co.: "We thought Leone's original was a wonderful picture. But the response to the first preview caused us to rethink the situation. Besides...
...going, with three of my brothers, to a dance at Paul Revere Hall in the Mechanics Building around New Years. What made this very different from the tea dances my classmates might attend at the Copley Plaza was that my brothers and I and a trumpet player named Max Eaminsky were the only white people in the crowd welcoming Louis Armstrong for his first Boston appearance...
...takeover fever that has infected American business continued to burn unabated last week. Beatrice Foods, which owns such brands as Tropicana orange juice, La Choy Oriental food and Swiss Miss chocolate mix, offered $2.8 billion for Esmark, which owns Playtex, Max Factor and Avis. The bid, which Esmark approved, topped by $400 million the offer made only three weeks earlier by the New York investment banking firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and was $300 million more than Beatrice's earlier...