Word: shit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cocaine connection. Teddy makes Cheryl hide behind a rock. Two Mexicans appear and Teddy successfully robs them of both the cocaine and their guns by being quicker on the draw. As soon as they disappear, Cheryl jumps out of her hiding place screaming, "Jesus Christ! You scared the shit out of me! You shot at those men! Jesus Christ!" He sits chuckling at her, lets her rave for a while and then makes everything all right with a kiss and a feel...
...into bed. Visually, this evokes a shot in Crichton's last film, Coma, where Genevieve Bujold slipped off her stockings, stuck her rear end into the camera and climbed a ladder. Crichton is a clever man, a Harvard graduate; those pretty rear ends may be his way of saying, "Shit on you, folks...
Fine performances from Moriarty, Tuesday Weld as Moriarty's strung-out wife, and especially from Nick Nolte as Ray Hicks, the martial arts enthusiast with a Nietzschean twist. A wonderful reading period film--"All my life I've taken shit from morons...
...death in 1957: "Actually, Frank did me a great favor-he saved me from the disaster our marriage would have been. The truth is he was probably smarter than I: he knew it couldn't work. But the truth also is that he behaved like a complete shit." When she writes about the end of her marriage to Jason Robards, she is as cool and businesslike as a woman returning a defective toaster...
...fetched editorial opinion has to, in the short run, be masked by the format of her article. Many women, and many men, are outraged, and one editor of the magazine put in a furious call to editor Clay Felker to protest. "If they are going to start running that shit, they aren't going to see my stuff in the magazine any longer," he said. But people who know how to be properly outraged are few and far between, and no doubt many will find themselves blindly agreeing that women could do well to sport a little more sex appeal...