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...contemporary stars ignored: Jack Nicholson's unforgettable confrontation with the waitress in Five Easy Pieces is longer than the burning-of-Atlanta clip from Gone With the Wind...
Field Coordinator Nick Nicholson was ready for trouble as he turned briskly into the Jimmy Carter storefront office in downtown Indianapolis last week. For months he had traveled around the country trying to sign up voters. It had been discouraging: only a few volunteers ever showed up, and there was rarely enough money for buttons and bumper stickers to soften up a sullen public...
...Nicholson moved past the empty vending machines of what used to be Earl's Snack Shop into the back workroom and found exactly what he had feared: 25 of the bank of 30 telephones were unmanned. A cordial, soft-spoken man from a small town in Kentucky, Nicholson, 28, nonetheless knows how to use a stick when he has to. He jumped all over the local staff. His tongue was blunt, at times crude, and later he ruefully explained why he had acted that way. "It's damn frustrating out here," he said. "There's no spontaneity...
...public, as Nicholson sees it, has been little touched by the 1976 campaign. Carter's Atlanta vote director, David Brunell, likens it to the sound of one hand clapping. A Democratic National Committee official involved in the registration and get-out-the-vote drive says that in 16 years of precinct politics he has never seen so little public interest. With 150 million Americans of voting age, this year's registration is likely to total roughly 100 million, about even with 1972 despite the fact that some 9 million more voters became eligible...
...disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except for a few "bigger than life" episodes that don't translate in this true-to-life context, the whole picture comes across with much more sincerity than the Kesey original. And in this troubling, de-romanticized setting Jack Nicholson's swagger says it all about the type of guys who won't play ball: he's the archetypal sharpy who tries to break the bank before he realizes the house has rigged the table...