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...director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin. The basic idea is clever: Martin is cast as the loving, beloved adopted son of a family of black sharecroppers. He is dumb as cow-flop and hopeless at foot shufflin' and finger snappin', but he tries hard. When he is ready to go out into the big world and his black mother (Mabel King) tells him that he was adopted, he is horrified: "You mean I'm gonna stay this color...
...South approach to voters is cooler than the delivery of the hot stump speechifiers of another era. Carter tells crowds: "When I'm in the White House, you'll have a friend there." In contrast, a prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected, and we'll set on the front porch and piss over the rail at them city bastards." Carter quotes Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan rather than traditional Southern heroes. He is more self-disciplined...
Doubtless, with something like $25 million in advance bookings at stake, Italian electronics will win through. Meanwhile, over at Universal, the folks who gave you Jaws and three snappin'-live mechanical sharks have a workable model of King Kong that they are much too gentlemanly to offer De Laurentiis...
This assignment also provided diversion for some of TIME'S own snappin' women in New York: Gina Mallet, who wrote the story, Martha Duffy, who edited it, and Amanda MacIntosh, who researched it. At one point the three joined Ms. Hemingway in a Manhattan restaurant; they were halfway through lunch (cold lobster, white wine) before they could really understand her lickety-split, California-hip patois, but the interview turned out "okeydoke artichoke," as Margaux would say. Mallet also talked with Model Beverly Johnson and interviewed Millionette Nicky Lane in her Visconti-decadent drawing room on Manhattan...
...buckle down and took off after a year for Europe. Her adventures were just as lively, if less genteel, than Lorelei Lee's. In Morocco, she was "sorta kidnaped" by a smuggling gang who made her into an unwitting hash courier. Fortunately, a friendly mechanic ("He was just snappin' ") sniffed out the fact that her car was mined with hash. Recalls Margaux: "It was really veggy" (translation: Margaux could not move or think...