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...seeing that his egocentric whims do not cut too deeply into those profits. As usual in Altman's films, the minor characters are hilariously venal, conning themselves relentlessly, the better to con the public. The film's best running gag has Geraldine Chaplin as sharpshooting Annie Oakley, sniping closer, ever closer to Frank Butler, her husband, who must hold her targets steady while fighting against growing fear as she keeps testing the limits of her possibly lethal talent. Altman understates this joke, as he does literally hundreds of others, with his cinematic trademarks: overlapping dialogue and quick-flick...
...blackmail. Based loosely on an actual historical incident, the movie required Connery to be costumed in Arab headgear so hot that it kept the actor within wandering distance of his air-conditioned trailer. As for Bergen, she calls her part "my favorite role ever -a sort of Annie Oakley in Morocco...
Have effete Eastern intellectuals underestimated this whoop-it-up Westerner who often behaved, as his biographer admits, like "the illegitimate offspring of H.L. Mencken and Annie Oakley"? Wallace Stegner, novelist (The Big Rock Candy Mountain), Stanford professor, and a fellow native of Utah, concedes that DeVoto was often wrong as well as "spectacularly right." He was also an 'Implacable showoff" who "set world records for taking himself seriously." But yes, says Stegner, DeVoto has been low-rated, chiefly because he ran with no coterie, and in fact ran head down against most of the opinion makers...
...These rich are very star-struck," observed a technician, trying to ride herd on a crowd that included Mrs. James Van Alen, Mrs. Claiborne Pell, Mrs. T.J. Oakley Rhinelander and Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Buchana.n...
...William Rogers, was about to have Hoffa indicted in a crooked real estate deal. The Teamster boss had already begun to criticize the candidacy of John Kennedy, an attack he stepped up when Kennedy won the Democratic nomination to run against Nixon. Hoffa meanwhile had a conversation with Allan Oakley Hunter, a former Republican Congressman. As Sheridan tells it, the discussion touched on Hoffa's troubles with the Government, as well as Teamster political activities. Hoffa inferred that the indictment would be quashed. The proceeding against him was then abruptly suspended. But immediately after the election Rogers reinstated...