Word: melancholiac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zevon takes some pain to live sufficiently close to danger and desperation so as not to lose his cutting edge. At 31, he is a dedicated juicer who can put away a bottle of Stolichnaya a night and a gun-wielding roisterer. He is also an attentive father and melancholiac composer who works in fits and starts in the short hours before dawn, turning out his strange songs and working occasionally on "my long-boasted-about but seldom-heard symphony"-all on the Steinway concert grand that stands in the living room of his modest Los Angeles house. Zevon seems...
...answers. Director Stuart Rosenberg (The Drowning Pool) and Scenarists Shagan (Save the Tiger) and Butler are primarily interested in letting the shipboard soap operas play out to their predictable conclusions: Will the Werner-Dunaway marriage unthaw on the bounding main? Will Lee Grant be able to control her melancholiac husband, who is, she announces, "retreating into himself? "Your orders come straight from Berlin. If you refuse to accept them, be prepared to accept the consequences for yourself-and your family." Will Malcolm McDowell have a chance to initiate Lynne Frederick into the mysteries of "what...
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