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Then there was last year's perfect 10-00 mark. "A perfect record is a once-in-a-lifetime thing." Getch mused. The team had a pouter beer mug inscribed 10-0-0" before their final game with Yale, and presented it to Getch after they...
...waited backstage for the premiere tape to roll, his personal barber smoothed his curls, and Pierre Cardin's New York general manager fitted him into a double-breasted custom jacket. Then, as he headed onstage, another aide added the final touch: he refilled the star's coffee mug. Even those in the back of the studio audience heard the clink of ice cubes in his cup. Iced coffee, an associate suggested, but surely the whole house knew damn well it was Johnnie Walker Red Label. As the clap board proclaimed, this was the Joe Namath Show, Take...
...this alternately acute and naive odyssey, Wyatt and Billy carom from ranch to hippie commune to jail to the New Orleans Mardi Gras. En route, they pick up a Civil Liberties lawyer named George Hanson. As it emerges in the film, the lawyer's part is only a mug shot of a wry, wistful boozer. But in his first major role, Jack Nicholson proves that he knows far more about acting than either of his costars. His elegies for a vanished life are melancholy without being bathetic; his marijuana-flavored description of a UFO takeover...
...does a good wire argue with a victim over a taxi. Can you think of a better way for a mark to pick out a mug shot of you later in the police station...
...business as well as mine, and for that reason I dislike speaking about it." The pair will probably never be untangled, intellectually or emotionally. They were, it seems, two great friends who also happened to be a father and son. One imagines them wandering into the Square after a mug or two at the Wursthaus, kicking at snow drifts, and frightening couples with high-spirited shouts, pausing to t test each other's memory of obscure verses. It is only speculation, but perhaps in the end they were held together by their refusal to become the mute weighers of evidence...