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When Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the original eight-point Atlantic Charter* aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast in August 1941, Hitler's tanks had seized North Africa, and Japan was preparing its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Kissinger's new charter will be written-if it appears at all-in a less dangerous but infinitely more slippery time of prosperity and détente...
Baseball is Fidel Castro's thing-along with guitar music and rhetoric. But the Cuban Premier seems willing to try just about anything. Homeward bound from the Soviet Union's 50th-anniversary celebrations in Moscow, Castro's plane stopped for refueling in Newfoundland, so Fidel set out to see the sights of Gander. He tossed a few snowballs, helped a pair of pretty nurses dig their car out of a snowbank, finally decided to try a little tobogganing. Unfortunately the toboggan tipped, sending el máximo lider sprawling into the snow. Everyone guffawed. Even Fidel...
Rowdyman. Or, Zorba goes to Newfoundland. The dice are naturally loaded in favor of the fun-lover, and the whole affair is amateurish...
...film revolves around the affairs of a small town Newfoundland roustabout named Will Cole. Among the principal events that he either witnesses or participates in are the marriage and death of his best friend, a prolonged and painful series of encounters with a girl, (an upper-class former high school friend) and a couple of visits to an old man in a nursing home. They do not accumulate to produce either a change in Cole or even a clear definition of an unchanging character type...
...named Stan. Pinsent admitted that the principal reason for writing the visit into the film was to show Cole in a compassionate light, and to redeem him for his earlier nastiness. Stan, played by Will Geer, is also meant to demonstrate the continuity of the roughneck tradition in Newfoundland--in his youth he was supposed to have been a real hell-raiser. But he only comes across as pathetic...