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Donald Sutherland plays Jesse Veldini, a cheap crook and demolition-derby contestant with a pronounced contempt for private property. "I'm not a criminal, I'm an outlaw," he explains to his occasional paramour Iris (Jane Fonda). Jesse's ambitious brother Frank (Howard Hesseman), who is running for state attorney general, sees it differently. To him, Jesse is not only a public nuisance but a threat to the campaign. Jesse's real interest lies in consorting with a group of benign crazies (Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and John Savage) in a plot to get a behemoth...
...concerned themselves with sports to a degree that would startle the modern reader. Harvard football and The Harvard Crimson celebrate their centennial in the same year; and, like children from the same neighborhood, they grew up together. In December of 1884, when the College's Athletic Council decided to outlaw intercollegiate football because of its "brutality". The Crimson jumped to its defense. The editors held a meeting which resolved "to condemn the action as hasty, and to maintain that the colleges ought to be granted an opportunity of amending the rules, so as to eliminate the objectionable features...
...Named Desire in 1947, then went on to Hollywood to make a series of six stunning pictures in five years, including The Wild One, On the Waterfront and Julius Caesar. This was the Brando who in the 1950s struck one of the keynotes of a generation with his romantic outlaw swagger, who influenced a whole school of cooler, more introspective actors like James Dean, Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift, and whose blue-jeaned, motorcycle-riding contempt for the clan rituals of Hollywood signaled the end of the star system as it had flourished till then...
Children's advocates also urge that juvenile courts should no longer have the authority to enforce so-called incorrigibility statutes, which, like vagrancy laws, are used to sweep the streets of "undesirables." The critics contend that these laws are unconstitutional and should be abandoned, since they outlaw no specific offense and leave their victims unjustifiably incarcerated. Director Joe Henning of the A.B.A. Youth Education for Citizenship program urges a gradation of rights that would encourage children "to undertake more of the responsibilities of citizenship as they grow older." Forcing a five-year...
Beach Boys. I just finished reading a long rap in Outlaw Blues between Paul Williams and David Anderle about what a genius Brian Wilson is was. I guess so. I liked the surfing and car music, but "Surf's Up" hit me like a three footer coming in to Virginia Beach. What ever happened to "Smile...