Word: mccloud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried and true formula. Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch. The good guys come in wondrous array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Lawyer Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets of San Francisco, Faraday and Company, McMillan & Wife), and in precision-movement teams (Chase, Hawaii Five...
Denver has no such worries today. His last four LPs have been million-dollar sellers. Within the past year he has made six specials for BBC, lined up guest-acting stints in the U.S. on both the Owen Marshall and McCloud series, and has two specials in the works for ABC. Last week he taped a Bob Hope special for November airing...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Robert Altman (M.A.S.H., Brewster McCloud, Images, The Long Goodbye) directs this gruff hearted Western story and turns the tables on who's who as hero--this time it is a tough talking opium smoking prostitute (Julie Christie) who has a business sense shrewd enough to muddle the head of the small time gambler (Warren Beatty) by teasing the needs of his gullible ego. Altman has done something radical with the use of sound--the voices mingle indiscernibly to effect a new sort of realism. Brattle Theatre...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Robert Altman (M.A.S.H., Brewster McCloud, Images, The Long Goodbye) directs this gruff hearted Western story and turns the tables on who's who as hero--this time it is a tough talking opium smoking prostitute (Julie Andrews) who has a business sense shrewd enough to muddle the head of the small time gambler (Warren Beatty) by teasing the needs of his gullible ego. Altman has done something radical with the use of sound--the voices mingle indiscernibly to effect a new sort of realism. Brattle Theatre...
...anything for Bob Altman now and for the rest of my life, en-nee-thing," she says. By asking her to take the part of a mystic birdwoman-spirit in Brewster McCloud (TIME, Jan. 4), Altman might have been abusing her loyalty, but she responded by supplying moments of melancholy, dizzy hilarity and aching sexuality to an otherwise benighted project...