Word: pushcart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unwearied Egos. The film shares roughly the strengths and weaknesses of the novel. Perceptions about the giddy excesses and malformed ironies of the movie business come through strongest: the unweaned egos of the people who make movies, the pushcart buccaneering of the studio heads who subsidize them. Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro) belongs to both worlds. If movies are dreams for him, they are yard goods for his studio colleagues. Stahr insists on making a big-budget quality movie that may never turn a profit. He does it over the protests of the corporate lawyer, Fleishacker (Ray Milland), and Studio...
Most of the pushcart men are immigrants, or sons of immigrants, from Italy, Sicily, or Greece. Their day begins at 4:30 AM, when by unwritten law each vendor takes the space whish is his, and ends by 9 or 10 at night, when the produce is packed away...
...first political kidnaping of 1971 was pulled off one morning last week with a panache born of practice. As a street vendor in the Old City of Montevideo reached into the pile of lettuce on his pushcart and pulled out a machine gun, four cars blocked the route of a black Daimler sedan. Out jumped a dozen men, who seized and clubbed two bodyguards and a chauffeur, and drove off triumphantly in the Daimler with their latest captive-and their biggest prey to date: British Ambassador to Uruguay Geoffrey Jackson...
...Pushcart Peddler...
...followed by blonde-wigged nudes and a sleekly sophisticated pas de deux executed by a pair of Petit's dancers. Finally, following a flurry of furs, sequins and extravagant nudes, the inimitable Zizi appears. Her ink black hair is clipped into a skull cap, and her raspy, pushcart-vendor voice keeps the audience in thrall for two solid hours...