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Drive, He Said is a bush-league disaster that might have passed unnoticed, and perhaps unmade, but for the participation of Jack Nicholson. His much-touted performance in Easy Rider won him the chance to make a movie almost literally all his own: he collaborated on the scenario for Drive, He Said, then directed and co-produced it. While other fledgling directors would be allowed to fail in comparative privacy, Nicholson's reputation makes his failure agonizingly public...
They are all going to go out West, not because they saw Easy Rider, but because of Nathanael West and Charlie Manson and earthquakes and Scott Fitzgerald and St. Mawr and Taco Bell and the beach. After all, if the country isn't there, where...
...least the new, desperate openness of the film companies did allow, for a time, the chance for an art of depth to be developed, and more realistic milieus to be delineated. The Graduate or Easy Rider might have been pretty terrible movies, but their audiences were presented with types they recognized from their own experience...
...paltry $1,200 and shipped him off to Caracas, where he was sold to Millionaire Horseman Pedro Baptista for $6,000. Nursed through his early infirmities, Cañonero grew into a strapping three-year-old with an exceptionally long (30 ft.) stride. When Venezuela's top rider, Gustavo Avila, was put in the saddle last March, Cañonero reeled off three straight wins. Convinced that he had a winning combination, Baptista packed his horse off to the Kentucky Derby. Cañonero, warned one Caracas newspaper, would be "hopelessly outclassed...
...other racetrack ramblings, Margo Argot was seen with Canonero's rider, sexy little Juan Avila, and the tete-a-tete got very close when she found that he was an Aries, just like herself. Some coincidence! Margo, a???ed in the fashion ??ge long pants in the Deanville style of the '30's, hails from the house country of Charlottesville and admits to being "just wild about horses." And their riders we might...