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There is, for example, the issue of the champ Hem, the up-and coming-Clark-Gable-swaggerer manifestation of Hemingway, blusters confidently that one day he'll he "champ," Currently though the older second oldest next to Papa) Ernesto is "champ," at the peak of his career, worrying just a little about selling out the writes for Look) but worried most of all about tumbling down from the heights. Everyone calls him "champ," and he is very jealous of his position as King of the Mountain. The young Hemingways aspire to ascend there, the old Hemingway dreams of more vital...
...make them all loud-mouthed fools, blabbering their life secrets from separate pedestals. James Maxwell's boyish reporter, then is too much the eager puppy (on his way up); Robert Gerringer's Ernesto is too loud and theatrical. With the exception of Alexander Scourby as a wind-blown Papa, none of the actors can handle these pressures...
Christina, whose 1971 marriage to Los Angeles Realtor Joseph Bolker, now 51, enraged Papa Ari and ended in divorce after nine months, did have some matrimonial guidance this time around...
...keeps finding excuses to get down here and put gloves on." Marvis, a ninth-grader who stands an inch and a half taller than his father and has a longer reach, worries about his weak left hook. Still, he is considering a pro career in the ring. Promises Papa: "If he did decide to get into it, he would have the best trainers in the world. And he wouldn't have to worry about getting a fair shake...
...answer to a question reveals that the instrument he played on was a little drum"), but her irrepressible earthiness finally leads her to puncture the melodrama directly. Indignant at the way Marcus is treating Oscar, she tells him off the way no other character would dare to: "A Papa talking about his own son! No animal would talk about their own son that way... You old bastard...