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Though Perkins is sure to learn how it was in Green Bay for Phil Bengston, who replaced Vince Lombardi, he is more inclined to consider Penn State's Joe Paterno, and how seldom Paterno is compared to Rip Engle any more. Anyway, Perkins leaped from the New York Giants for the job of his dreams, while the New York opening accommodated the fantasies of Bill Parcells, an assistant coach born a Giant fan in New Jersey. It seemed that everyone's hopes were seen to, except the Bear...
...movies crafted to set off the talents of stars who may be big shots in some other medium, but don't know the tricks of the movie trade. In this instance, the victim is Bette Midler, getting by as usual on brass, bounce and breastworks. The perpetrator is Rip Torn, a snake-eyed sneak who has been lifting the hubcaps off other people's scenes for years, but here moves up to capital crime. He may be the last actor left who can get a laugh out of a belch, and the first to get one by throwing...
Final question: Does Rip Torn save the show...
Jinsed's basic premise is that a petty gambler named Howard (Rip Torn) has somehow managed to put a "jinx" on a young blackjack dealer. Willy (Ken Wahl), and is now chasing him from casino to casino trying to break the bank. Whenever Howard smokes a certain magically lucky brand of cigar, he's sure to win any hand Willy deals him Howard is a rather sleazy character with a seemingly infinite wardrobe of polyester Stetson hats, and this is his first chance...
...Rip Torn nicely captures the brash vulgarly of Howard, but he is only really comfortable after the murder, when, a Howard's corpse, he no longer has to deal with the film's wooden dialogue: immobilized, he wears an unearthly look of relief, Ken Waht plays the macho easy-going Eric Estrada type of guy who seems to crop up in almost every cop and adventure show on T.V. he mumbles his way through his lines adequately, and when the going gets rough, he takes off his shirt to reveal his true assets...