Word: mcqueens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...darling. On our project, they're playing with McQueen, but I don't think they can pay the money . . . Candy, my angel. Do you want to come to dinner Thursday? Here's who I'm having: Bogdanovich, Evans, maybe Nicholson . . .Oh Bobby, hi, sweetheart. You want us to negotiate a deal right now? $500,000 against 10% of the gross-no. $250,000 plus...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA. THURS-SAT: Assassination (Shinoda) 4, 7:45, 11:30. Pale Flower (Shinoda) 5:55, 9:45, starts SUN Late Spring (Ozu), 4, 6, 8, 10. Cinema II: thur TUES: The Great Escape (McQueen), 4, 7:15, 10:15, Midnite FRI-SAT: Some Like it Hot (Monroe) plus Chapter 3 of The Shadow...
...films can still provide comfort for the weary and overburdened. Rip learns that the stalwarts have not toppled. Gregory Peck, Paul Newman, John Wayne, Steve McQueen are impervious to criticism; throw a rock at them and it still produces sparks. As for the theater, that too has its enduring endearing qualities. There are laments for the passing grandeur of the now tacky Broadway; butter and egg musicals, and Neil Simon comedies still pull in the theater parties. Save for the new nudity, the visitor might never have been away...
...McQueen is primarily a deep-frozen presence, although he handles a variety of guns with impressive familiarity. As a screen personality, MacGraw is abrasive. As a talent, she is embarrassing. Supposedly a scruffy Texas tart. MacGraw appears with a complete designer wardrobe and a set of Seven Sister mannerisms...
Peckinpah seems perfectly aware of all this, but instead of trying to do some thing about it, he puts her down - lit erally. She and McQueen stow away in a garbage truck and come spilling out in a gush of trash onto the town dump. Peckinpah's chuckling is almost audible...