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...dialogue has been eliminated. What remains is either mundane, mechanical chattel-or pitiful profundities of the why-I-race variety. Visually, the film never gets out of low gear. There is not a single scene or shot that was not done first and better by John Frankenheimer in Grand Prix...
Once and for all, declared the press releases, the $288,900 Questor Grand Prix would decide the burning question: "Can brute American power beat effete European technology?" Can, in other words, the growling Formula A racing cars that are prepared in the U.S. hold their own against the sleek little Formula One machines from the international Grand Prix circuit...
Passing Maneuver. Everyone got out of the way of Mario Andretti, one of the few Americans driving Formula Ones on the Grand Prix tour. During some qualifying laps, his blood-red Ferrari 312-B spun out of control and slammed into a wall. Unhurt and undaunted, Andretti hustled to Phoenix, Ariz., for another race while his mechanics repaired the car's front suspension. Hopping a helicopter and then a private jet, he got back to Ontario just in time to qualify for the 12th starting position in the first heat...
This latest role for BB was conceived and executed by Asian (Alain Gourdon), a French artist who once won the Grand Prix de Rome for his sculpture, and now sometimes draws magazine pinup girls. While vacationing in Thiron-Gardais, Asian decided to try his hand at sculpting a new Marianne, who has been reconceived a number of times since she was first created in 1848. Says Asian: "All the Mariannes invariably have a Greek profile. It's ridiculous to have a Greek god dess representing the French Republic. Automatically, the image of Brigitte Bardot imposed itself on my spirit...
...raging to be merely satirical, too exuberant to be tragic, his first novel (the first African novel to win one of France's top literary honors, the Prix Renaudot) begins as a sort of mock epic outlining in blood red the very real history of an imaginary African empire, Nakem...