Word: muggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long, sure enough, they frame him for the cowardly killing of a boy of 15. The situation is al most self-consciously classic, and there is a temptation to yell "Come back, Shane!" at the screen. But it is a pleasure to watch Steve McQueen's tough, weathered mug as he speaks the lines given to Tom Horn, an actual turn-of-the-century frontiers man. If there is a bit too much of this sort of satisfaction, with a great many shots of McQueen looking tragical, Tom Horn is a good, honest try, a western that does...
Sprinkled through Easyriders are advertisements for a dazzling array of products tied to the motorcycle lifestyle. There are "macho suspenders in Harley colors," and a three-record set of "War Songs of the Third Reich." You can order a handcrafted, bone china beer mug in the shape of a human skull, skull, or a part of your motorcycle plated in gold, or an eight-track tape that will teach you how to "make your dog a real man-stopper...
...still that time of year. Tonight, the National Hockey League quarterfinal round opens, and the fight for Lord Stanley's mug resumes. Rumor has it that a league champion will be crowned before Commencement...
...remembers to play a harmless nitwit of the Jerry Lewis variety. But that really is not his kind of humor. During most of this film he is way out of character (so is his rough language). He does not impersonate a rube or a lovable nitwit; his twitchy, leering mug is that of a loony who may be dangerously mad, a secret aficionado of cat juggling whose gift is for making audiences laugh uneasily. That is to say that he is, approximately, a white Richard Pryor, and how about casting the two of them to gether in a remake...