Word: slob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitably, any actor who plays Kowalski has to cope with the memory of Marlon Brando in the original production. Brando not only exuded animal magnetism but also conveyed the inarticulate dignity of an animal. In the current production, James Farentino seems like a deliberate lowbrow, a slob who relishes being a slob. He comes across as meanspirited, and the scene in which he ravishes Blanche becomes a sordid rape instead of the elemental encounter implied by "We've had this date with each other from the beginning...
...been slain by bow and arrow. Says California Rancher Gordon Garland: "Cattle theft in the foothills has increased so much in recent months that ranchers are now forced to carry guns to protect their own physical well-being." Another leathery son of the soil advises: "When you catch some slob stealing, shoot...
...CALL! GET THAT SLOB OUTA HERE...
...Catholic no account from Brooklyn is everything from a small time swashbuckler the's a deckhand on a tugboat) to a cult figure among the Radical chic He's also a dollmaker whose work even the Times has stopped to review. I Fogarty hates priests, quarrels with an incomplete slob of a white and lives with a Manhattan bound groupte cum socialite Generally boisterous and malcontent Fogarty has only two bright sports amidst the soiled sheets and barroom props that upholster his life his son and his sex. His relationship to these the sole objects his reserence, is the main...
Pavlo tells how a Regular Army slob stumblingly pursues through boot camp and battle the mythic promise of the recruiting posters that THE ARMY WILL MAKE A MAN OF YOU! Pacino makes Pavlo a walking antipersonnel device, a Bouncing Betty that chops his foes, and himself, off at the crotch. Pacino's previous roles (most conspicuously, Michael in The Godfather) have blazed with a menace that he now transforms into a quivering, infantile bravado, a would-be Lieut. Galley, played for explosive laughs. The only buddy he rescues is a dead one. The only atrocity he achieves...