Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roberts, Henry Fonda caught the audience's sympathy?and then died discreetly, as one would expect, offstage. Jane's brains are blown away in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? As for Peter, he has the most muscular, corpuscular death: groovily shotgunned down on his bike in Easy Rider. '?Until lately, the Flying Fondas have not been a show-business family notable for harmony. But there is no melody like success. Henry has just completed his 72nd film, The Cheyenne Social Club, and currently is directing the Plumstead Playhouse version of Our Town. Jane has just...
...evilness is particularly compelling because he is a conscious and full human being rather than the kind of one-dimensional Establishment caricature that we see so often in films. As a many-faceted human being, McParlan is far more real, dangerous, and frightening than the crackers in Easy Rider the cops in Medium Cool, or the fascists...
...Star. That sort of economic discipline was thought impossible until last year, when the Peter Fonda-Dennis Hopper production, Easy Rider, hit Hollywood the way the Volkswagen hit Detroit. Shot on a starvation budget of $400,000, the film is expected to gross $30 million-a reminder that people 30 and under account for 75% of the U.S. box office...
...Easy Rider belt is tightening around the necks of prima donna producers and directors with a record of bringing pictures in late and overbudget. Blake Edwards, whose The Great Race came in at 100% over, and his wife Julie Andrews, no longer surefire box office since Star!, are reportedly being paid a $1,000,000 settlement by MGM not to shoot their previously committed film, She Loves...
...hood pins, warned that "In ten seconds your resistance will self-destruct." But by November, the ads showed a similar model colored a muted gold, and the value-stressing headline was: "We built more car into the car." Chevy is also emphasizing comfort and resale value in its "big rider" campaign for the Impala...