Word: newman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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America's most interesting active film maker, Robert Altman, has created a sly, wry, wise study of what fame does to people cursed with that most mixed of blessings. Buffalo Bill Cody (superbly played by Paul Newman) was a legend created out of flimsy cloth by a pulp writer and promoter named Ned Buntline (impersonated by Burt Lancaster), who lurks around the fringes of the film...
...unholy trio hits the well-manicured streets of Beverly Hills, struggling to recruit the likes of Paul Newman, Anne Bancroft, James Caan, Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds, the studio chief stews in his office, combatting a takeover by a notoriously ruthless conglomerate called Engulf and Devour...
pursuing Paul Newman in electric wheelchairs; surprising Burt in his shower; bringing poor comfort to the studio head, now stricken by a heart attack and laid up in the hospital; or sweet-talking - silently, of course - an extravagantly campy sex bomb (Bernadette Peters) into joining the cause. Under scrutiny this premise may not be quite enough. Silent Movie could have used the sort of unifyingly insane notion that made Brooks' The Producers memorable: make a success by mounting the most miserable failure you can find...
...with Led Zeppelin, complains that "everybody in the business knows a new era has got to come, but they're too busy cashing in on the old one to help it along." Some are helping, either by working their own personal territory (like Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits and James Talley) or, like Simon, Dylan, Bruce Springsteen (TIME cover, Oct. 27) or The Band, trying to make their private property public. There are superb performers (like Linda Ronstadt), and wizardry writers (like Jackson Browne) who are learning the tricks of showmanship. But finding spirited new directions for music...
...hasn't played hockey since his junior high school days nearly 40 years ago, and most of the ice he's seen lately has come from the family fridge. Still, Actor Paul Newman may just survive the rigors of his new movie Slap Shot. "I'm a hockey player," says Newman, 51, describing his role. "I'm somewhat over the hill, a little desperate and looking for a way to make things work." Newman, who played pool in The Hustler, tootled a trombone in Paris Blues and boxed in Somebody Up There Likes Me, insists that...