Word: robin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Famous hustlers-Omaha Fats, Weenie Beanie, Boston Shorty, Wimpy Lassiter, Cuban Joe, Junior Golf-shoot it out in three different tournaments. The winner of each division plays in a three-way round-robin on the last day for the title of World's Greatest All-Around pool player...
...ROBIN WOOD'S book, the best in English on Hitchcock, analyzes seven of his later films in terms of guilt and cleansing. For Wood Hitchcock's plots implicate his characters in some immoral action, often a murder, and then let them make restitution. Overcoming a psychological paralysis of spirit and action that characterizes guilty men. Hitchcock's characters increase their moral breadth through their confrontation with their capacity for evil. At the same time Hitchcock involves his audiences in the guilty action or in condemnation of the guilty man, then makes them reconsider this endorsement. Wood's structural analysis explains...
...London apartment is complicated by predictable amounts of prejudice and duplicity. "Yes, Madam," he recites patiently over the phone, "it is a Scottish name. But I am from the West Indies. Yes, I am hopelessly black." On a tip, he finds lodgings in the Chelsea flat of Roddy (Robin Phillips), the son of "decayed gentle folk." Roddy's own insecurities lead him to identify more and more with Mackenzie's black friends and to lure him into a dead-end love affair with a white girl (Judy Geeson...
...people who brought you the Beatles, miniskirts, Tom Jones, cashmere sweaters and Robin Hood want to invite you to get to know some of us better...
...20th century. As Butch and the Kid, respectively, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are afflicted with cinematic schizophrenia. One moment they are sinewy, battered remnants of a discarded tradition. The next they are low comedians whose chaffing relationship -and dialogue-could have been lifted from a Batman and Robin episode...