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...boats be written into the action. "We couldn't do it," Spielberg says. "You have three guys out in a rickety boat, hunting a killer shark. What kind of menace is there going to be if there is a family of four only 50 feet away, having a picnic on their sailboat...
...Margaux, not Ernest, who is the big name today. She is even getting over her fear of competition. When Joan came to New York recently to promote the movie Rosebud, for which she had helped write the original novel, Margaux talked up Muffet's forthcoming cookbook, Picnic Gourmet, to the press...
...chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking, interrupted a picnic at the Ming tombs outside the city to deliver a similar message to Chinese authorities. Next day, the Chinese returned the notes, signifying that they would not accept them...
...watching; but the reason both films work so well is that Lester is satirizing not merely that outdated movie form, the heavily romanticized historical spectacle, but history itself. When Lester's people fall off horses or into mud puddles, scramble about trying to have a picnic on a battlement, or try to duel on an icy river where they cannot even stand up, the reason is not that the director finds pratfalls irresistible. Instead, each and every character is a zealot, convinced not only that whatever cause he happens to be serving will change the course of human affairs...
...just because the golfers don't bash their heads against dummies every day or run to Watertown and back doesn't mean that golf is not a sport. Just because they practice at a country club doesn't mean that it's all a picnic for McConnell and company...