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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...
...know better than the digits of their own phone. Henry and Jane have something, but the little brother with the big mouth just might have everything. Outside his spacious Bel Air home, Bridget, 6, and Justin, 3�, gambol; Sue has retained her appeal; the checks from 22% of Easy Rider will soon annihilate the bills. A newspaper cartoon pinned above the fireplace says it all: two teen-age girls moon around a room waiting out a thunderstorm. "Do you think," asks one, "that it rains on Peter Fonda too?" No longer...
...energy. He still guns his emotional engine too loud, and the exhaust from his pronunciamentos of ten obscures the man. "Peter has made a career of not being repressed," says Susan Blanchard. But the career has gone from bullying waste to something measurable. His scenario for Easy Rider was sometimes self-indulgent. Its villains were as exaggerated and snarling as the overdrawn wrongos of his Dad's old oaters, and its bloody ending reminiscent of the Emperor Nero's desire to attend his own funeral. Today Peter has evolved an elaborate ambiguity to justify its action-comic wanderers, Wyatt...
...knew, going in, that it wasn't true. I think he knew he was making violence in such an acceptable form that we would all groove on it as voyeurs. I was put down by my longhair, freaked-out friends, who said, "Man, you have violence in Easy Rider." But the violence I put in Easy Rider was unacceptable because it was unexpected. The violence in The Wild Bunch was expected and totally acceptable. When it is acceptable, you have already dealt with it in some past experience. The shootout. COCKS: How about asking each of you whether...
...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...