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What then is in this season without also being out-outspoken, outrageous or out of sight? Movies. All three networks will unreel miles of movies, not only made-for-TV slickies but also an impressive array of recent hits from commercial theaters. Among them: Yellow Submarine, Patton, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, In the Heat of the Night and Love Story...
Married. George C. Scott, 44, gruff, gifted American actor who refused to accept an Academy Award in 1971 for Patton; and Trish Van Devere, 31, actress (One Is a Lonely Number); he for the fourth time (after two marriages to Actress Colleen Dewhurst), she for the second; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...stage" sequence, squint through the camera lights as they try to outdo each other in telling Ms. Fonda how fucked-up the service already is. One soldier gripes to the camera as he stands quite conveniently in front of a Coke sign, another in front of an advertisement for Patton. A reading of largely symbolic demands by some servicemen at one base literally becomes a part of the night's performance. Even so, the show seems to have been a real outlet of grievances for Army personnel; the film, however, is closed...
Such opinions made him increasingly uncomfortable in the military. Some times he amuses himself at parties by playing a truculent young Patton ("If we could just blow out those goddamn dikes up North"). Privately his conversation runs to Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Browning. The night the B-52s started bombing Hanoi and Hai phong, Bunting said: "Can we react any more? I don't know. But this makes me physically sick." · Lance Morrow
...Patton, George C. Scott and World War II. Harvard Square. 4:10, 9. With Mash, a different war and different officers starring Eliot Gould and Donald Sutherland...