Word: pollacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ELECTRIC HORSEMAN Directed by Sydney Pollack Screenplay by Robert Garland...
...obvious both stars saw this film as a vehicle to advocate causes they care about, but they are good-natured about it. Writer Garland and Director Pollack had the sense to give Horseman the tone of a pop fable; they stress entertainment over preachment. A romantic intensity that Fonda and Redford might have generated is lost as a result; there could have been more electricity between the electric horseman and his lady. And Willie Nelson, the great country singer, is wasted in his first acting role. Still, there is not a more cheerful or engaging movie around these days...
...Writers Project recorded the lives of "ordinary" Americans. Not only did a galaxy of stars emerge from the Theatre Project, but similar galaxies emerged from other Projects as well--Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison from the Writers Project; Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning from the Art Project...
...butterfly duel with East German double winner Andrea Pollack (who had meet records in both fly events), coming on the heels of the grueling 400 I.M., revealed just what kind of shape she was in. "I knew that both of the Germans always go out fast and then burn out," she said afterwards, "so I just took it slow for the first 100. I wasn't even tired at that point, but I just made my move too late...
...This whole dispute has made no sense at all," said J.D. Pollack, director of public relations for the Orson Welles Cinema, which has shown midnight movies for seven years. "I do not see how the board members could have been unaware of the fact that movies are shown at midnight in Cambridge and every other major city in the United States...