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...young to be a founding beatnik and, ten years later, a little too bald to be a convincing hippie, he became "the Chief" to a tribe of hallucinating nomads. This stage of Kesey's life was described in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's rollicking screed about a cross-country tour that Kesey and his overstimulated Merry Pranksters took in a vintage school bus with a psychedelic paint...
...adenoids are missing, but the tone is unmistakable ("Those halcyon days of yore are gone for good"). Through the booming names and assertions comes the clarion bleat of Howard Cosell blowing his own horn. In this $ autobiographical screed, the Mouth That Roared shows that in a 32-year career, no triumph was ever forgotten or insult overlooked. In the early 1980s, his Monday Night Football colleagues made the mistake of being "full of themselves, obviously convinced they could handle the telecasts as well without me." The broadcaster turned viewer chortled as the audience dwindled: "I barely made it through...
...opening line was "Do you know who I am?" Well, of course, everyone did. At Cambridge University, Prince Edward was making his British stage debut in an undergraduate production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a political screed based on the 17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass. Though Edward, 19, was playing sexagenarian Deputy Governor Danforth, Director Nicholas Walmsley found that the supporting role fitted the princely thespian "like a glove." Edward was more sanguine when asked about his performance. "That's not for me to judge," he said. "Life...
Shapiro's screed is occasionally diverted by memories of adulteries past ("Sin, too, requires time"), but his principal obsessions are the idols of contemporary society: novels, psychiatry, sociology, pornography, politics, and worldliness in general. In his view, humanity's chance for redemption lies in unquestioning faith. That alone can reconcile the hopes of humanity and the violence of history. Shapiro takes a circuitous route to arrive at Dante's dictum: "In his will is our peace...
...segment. Morrow plays a bigoted businessman who learns the True Meaning of Racial Injustice when transported to Nazi-occupied France, a Klan lynching and a G.I. patrol in Viet Nam. Landis, who also contributes the engaging prologue to Twilight Zone, would have been well advised to junk his screechy screed. Even with the helicopter sequence mercifully cut, the story hardly looks worth shooting, let alone dying...