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...back this season playing first once, and then twice weekly for the San Diego Clippers, who won only 17 of 82 National Basketball Association games last year and welcomed even part-time help. The rest of the time, Walton traveled north to study law at Stanford, inspired by the spectral array of lawsuits surrounding him. They include former San Diego Owner Irv Levin's claim that Walton and his doctors should have warned Levin of the congenital foot problem in 1979. Only in spirit was Walton the freest free agent, leader of the champion Portland Trail Blazers...
...company's safety, with an audience's willingness to accede to his demons - make a reckless ad venturer like Francis Coppola seem stodgy by comparison. For Heart of Glass Herzog hypnotized his actors, and on the receptive viewer his films have a similar effect: their spectral landscapes, brain-fevered protagonists and eruptions of lyricism can weave a mesmerizing spell. In achievement and originality his movies stand above and apart from most contemporary cin ema. They have the remote beauty of fairy tales decoded from a lost civilization...
...living-room TV late one night, Carol Anne speaks to them, and is heard and seduced and swallowed by them into the restless heart of the house. The film's last hour documents a harrowing tug of wills between Carol Anne's from and the spectral army surrounding them; between the spirits and two specialists, a parapsychologist (Beatrice Straight) and a child-voiced psychic (Zelda Rubinstein), who exert their powers to "cleanse" the house; and ultimately among the spirits, fighting to release the child or forever claim her for their...
...today. "A powerful picture reaches into your heart and just rips it out," says Photographer Eddie Adams People will always have to hold fast to their hearts when they see, as if it were happening before them, Robert Kennedy bleeding on the floor of a hotel hallway or a spectral Neil Armstrong taking his first tentative step onto the moon...
Growing light reveals a bleak gray back wall and a spectral frieze of figures who may be inmates of a prison or an asylum. Later they will coalesce into a band of Greek Furies or chalk-faced exorcists, hissing and poking little white crosses at the unrepentant libertine Don Juan (John Seitz). At times, blistering white light rakes the audience as if the entire universe of man merited a third-degree grilling...