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...immediately "became thoroughly convinced that this was a great story." He wangled permission to visit the prisoner and two weeks later signed a contract with Gilmore's uncle and lawyers because the murderer, says Schiller, "liked my style and sense of humor." Next he made a deal with Playboy and signed on Freelance Writer Barry Farrell to write Gilmore's story from 36 tapes of conversations with him. Schiller hopes the eventual book and movie will gross up to $10 million, with a $100,000 profit for himself. Provided, of course, that he finds a buyer...
...suave and strong--these fragments make a fantasy character out of adult fairy tale. Casanova stands for the Prince Charming of sex, the man whom all women can have but none can hold, the supreme stud who infallibly provides the ultimate fuck. Everybody knows just enough about the courtly playboy to create such a puppet; few have enough information to flesh out a human individual, Giacomo Casanova of Venice. For art and imagination's sake, so much the better; a real person is too eccentric to be the plaything of a world's fantasy. But the marionette Casanova, everyone makes...
...celebrated Playboy interview, when he admitted that he had "lusted in my heart" after other women, Carter was explaining that he did not judge other people because he had felt sinful impulses himself. (Earlier he had said, "I have never been unfaithful to my wife.") By discussing such a touchy subject with Playboy, however, Carter was showing judgment that was at best naive...
...trying to compete with Playboy and sell your magazine with sex and violence...
...have been startling and funny, is actually thoroughly predictable and calculated. Watching Silver Streak is like leaning out a moving train window and looking ahead: you can see everything coming a mile off. The prospect is not entirely pleasant either. Besides the dialogue, which sounds like counsel from "The Playboy Adviser," the twists of plot have been extensively mapped by previous train thrillers, from The Lady Vanishes to Gary Grant's interlude aboard the Twentieth Century Limited in North by Northwest. Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Scenarist Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude) are simply following along the tracks...