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...Nicholas Peck, running as an Independent this time after losing the Democratic nomination to Mahoney two years ago. Peck is a former reporter for the Boston Globe and a conscientious objector...
...Peck's presence in the race that makes the outcome difficult to predict. He is young and has been waging a more spirited campaign than either of his opponents. He says that he expects to receive votes from many Republicans as well as Democrats and Independents...
...recall The Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck, indomitable as ever, was the leader of a crack World War II commando unit dispatched to destroy a brobdingnagian Nazi artillery unit. En route, Peck and his troops would often denounce the ironies of fate and the horrors of war, then slaughter like Saracens when they finally came up against...
...course of the summer, I had opportunities to interview representatives of most of the mayor political releases Gregory Peck, the producer of Catonsville Nine was the first I talked with and had the least to say. He decided to back the production, out of a gut level reaction against what was happening in Vietnam if he had personal politics at all they were directed against our totalitarian cultural blandness and could not be specified particularly by the star of Marooned and The Chairman. Later talks with Jeremy Larner screenwriter of The Candidate and Ron O'Neal, the star of Super...
...Night of the Hunter, but he was at least demented. Burt Lancaster may have been a tainted exploiter in Elmer Gantry, but that was at least fiction. Marjoe is very real and very chilling, an unholy innocent who seems to see himself as nothing more than a Peck's Bad Boy, a flimflam man of God who gives good service in return for his dollar. Marjoe believes-and the movie demonstrates-that he did give something to many of the trusting blacks and whites who emptied their pockets for his prayer cloths: rapture here, deep joy there, and many...