Word: picador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scott's transmutation of the character is remarkable. When his head is bowed, it is not in resignation but rather like that of a bull bloodied by the picador yet ready to charge again. Where the lines have Willy on the verge of whining, Scott roars out a défi to a malignant fate. Never has the father in Willy come across so forcefully. His boys Biff and Happy, finely played by James Farentino and Harvey Keitel, are inextricably involved with this man. They cannot ignore him since his passionate concern for them and their future...
Something Magic. Müller, a slight man who habitually wears black trousers, a black sweater, a black velvet jacket and a picador's black hat, does not stop at enclosing Parisian derelicts in plastic bubbles. Among the larger bubbles he has designed and built are an inflatable theater that seats 800 people and an inflatable church that conveniently folds down to a 2-ft. by 4-ft. package after services. His passion for bubbles has also hit him where he lives: a shimmering, red-and-white candy-striped vinyl bubble house at the edge of a forest...