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Perhaps best known until now for the score of Shaft, Isaac Hayes here follows Three Tough Guys with another lame shot at establishing some kind of on-camera identity for himself. The vehicle he has chosen is a numskull cops-and-robbers piece about a skip tracer (someone who hunts down bail jumpers). Hayes forsakes his rock-performing wardrobe of bare chest wrapped in chains to slop around Los Angeles in a variety of Levi outfits, glowering, guzzling cans of Coors and ferreting out various criminal types. He is called Truck because his methods usually carry a certain violent impact...
...last sum mer when Domblewski was camping in the Adirondacks. As the lawyers told it, in August, shortly after Garrow was flushed out of the mountains and arrested by a state police posse, he told Beige that he had raped and killed a woman in an abandoned mine shaft. Some three weeks later, Beige found the mine-and the body of Susan Petz, 21. She had been missing since July, although the body of her camping companion, Daniel Porter, 23, had been found in the area. Then, late last September, another Garrow confession led the lawyers to the body...
...down into the muddy pit, and with cramped movements heaves irregular clods back up towards the light. Ill-aimed shovel-loads occasionally fall back on him, but Coleman admits to rather liking the task. And just a few feet away, he notes, another submerged laborer toils in another clammy shaft...
...teaches English literature at a London university, is generally befogged and intermittently besieged. An arch ex-wife seeks him out with the news that she plans to remarry. Students descend on him for tutorials, inundate him with papers like "Hate and Redemption in A Winter's Tale. "Edna Shaft (Jessica Tandy) is upset because Butley(Alan Bates) encouraged a student to quit one of her stifling seminars. Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan), a junior member of the department, is planning to move in with his lover, Reg, whom Butley disdains. This news stirs not only jealousy but whole...
...each guest insults the Prince of Wales and then claims someone else made the remark. "Your majesty is like a stream of bat piss," James MacNeill Whistler comments, and Wilde is forced to explain: "I simply meant, your majesty, that when all is dark, you shine out like a shaft of gold." And the Monty Python stand-by of snappy answers to stupid questions is still occasionally successful. A customer in a cheese store asks without success for every variety of cheese you or your cow ever heard of, until he bursts out: "Do you really have any cheese...